Usable Pasts

by Tuleja, Tad

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Title Statements

Full title :Usable Pasts.

Summary

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.""

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Utah State University, University Libraries
Language:eng
Publication Date:1997.

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Directory of Open Access Books: DOAB.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780874212266, 087421226X
oclc:ocn794698238

Subjects

Canada Ethnologie -- Canada Ethnologie -- États-Unis Ethnology Ethnology -- Canada Ethnology -- United States Minorities -- Social life and customs Minorities -- Social life and customs. … Minorities -- Social life and customs. … United States