| Description |
xxii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction</em> by Pamela R. Frese -- Observing Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological Fieldwork</em> by Madeline Duntley -- American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat of Alaska</em> by Edith Turner -- Sauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as Performances of Identity</em> by John M. Coggeshall -- Individual and Community in a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in the American South</em> by Gwen Kennedy Neville -- The Ritual of Testifying in the Black Church</em> by Jon Michael Spencer -- Powwows, Parades, and Social Drama Among the Waccamaw Sioux</em> by Patricia B. Lerch -- Anglo-American Mortuary Complex and Cultural Heritage</em> by Pamela R. Frese -- Ritual Cycles of Exchange: The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S.</em> Borderlands</em> by Carlos G. Velez Ibañez -- Ethnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi-Mexicans and Others</em> by Karen Leonard -- Fishing and Drinking in Kodiak</em> by Rachel Mason -- Coronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the Individual</em> by Michaele Thurgood Haynes -- The Ritual Cycle of the American Monarch</em> by J.R. McLeod -- Index -- About the Contributors |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Rites and ceremonies -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
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| Author |
Frese, Pamela R.
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| LC no. |
92043387 |
| ISBN |
0897893352 |
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