Celebrations of identity : multiple voices in American ritual performance

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Celebrations of identity : multiple voices in American ritual performance

edited by Pamela R. Frese ; foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Bergin & Garvey, 1993

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This volume celebrates the cultural diversity of the United States as it is articulated through ritual performance. It presents the diverse ways in which people choose to validate and perpetuate their cultural identity. The collection of essays invokes the state of critical self-awareness that is increasingly enlisted in multicultural discourse. This volume is an important addition to the literature on ritual in America and will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, and researchers in social sciences and humanities because it explores all dimensions of ritual experience and provides new visions of American identity expressed through formalized festive events.

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Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Acknowledgments Introduction by Pamela R. Frese Observing Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological Fieldwork by Madeline Duntley American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat of Alaska by Edith Turner Sauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as Performances of Identity by John M. Coggeshall Individual and Community in a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in the American South by Gwen Kennedy Neville The Ritual of Testifying in the Black Church by Jon Michael Spencer Powwows, Parades, and Social Drama Among the Waccamaw Sioux by Patricia B. Lerch Anglo-American Mortuary Complex and Cultural Heritage by Pamela R. Frese Ritual Cycles of Exchange: The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S. Borderlands by Carlos G. Vélèz Ibáñez Ethnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi-Mexicans and Others by Karen Leonard Fishing and Drinking in Kodiak by Rachel Mason Coronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the Individual by Michaele Thurgood Haynes The Ritual Cycle of the American Monarch by J.R. McLeod Index About the Contributors

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