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- Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America
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- 1997
- Published by: Utah State University Press
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In Usable Pasts, fourteen authors examine the manipulation of traditional expressions among a variety of groups from the United States and Canada: the development of a pictorial style by Navajo weavers in response to traders, Mexican American responses to the appropriation of traditional foods by Anglos, the expressive forms of communication that engender and sustain a sense of community in an African American women's social club and among elderly Yiddish folksingers in Miami Beach, the incorporation of mass media images into the "C&Ts" (customs and traditions) of a Boy Scout troop, the changing meaning of their defining Exodus-like migration to Mormons, Newfoundlanders' appropriation through the rum-drinking ritual called the Schreech-In of outsiders' stereotypes, outsiders' imposition of the once-despised lobster as the emblem of Maine, the contest over Texas's heroic Alamo legend and its departures from historical fact, and how yellow ribbons were transformed from an image in a pop song to a national symbol of "resolve."
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part I: Marking the “Tribal”
- pp. 21-23
- Part II: Intentional Identities
- pp. 137-139
- 6. Newell’s Paradox Redux
- pp. 140-155
- Part III: The Spirit of Place
- 12. How Texans Remember the Alamo
- pp. 274-290
- Part IV: National Perspectives
- About the Contributors
- pp. 232-335
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874213348
Related ISBN(s)
9780874212259, 9780874212266
MARC Record
OCLC
42330233
Pages
345
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
1997