Usable pasts: traditions and group expressions in North America
Edited by Tad Tuleja. Includes bibliographical references. 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 America...
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ftmountainschol:oai:mountainscholar.org:10217/87738 2023-05-15T17:22:52+02:00 Usable pasts: traditions and group expressions in North America Tuleja, Tad 2007-01-03T05:43:45Z born digital books application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87738 English eng eng Colorado State University. Libraries Utah State University Press Utah State University Press http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87738 Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information. Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only. Minorities -- United States -- Social life and customs Minorities -- Canada -- Social life and customs Ethnology -- United States Ethnology -- Canada Text 2007 ftmountainschol 2023-03-04T18:45:18Z Edited by Tad Tuleja. Includes bibliographical references. 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".--Provided by publisher. Through Navajo eyes: pictorial weavings from Spider Woman's loom / Nancy Peake -- Appropriation and counterhegemony in south Texas: food slurs, offal meats, and blood / Mario Montano -- Dyngus Day in Polish American communities / Deborah Anders Silverman -- "May the work I've done speak for me": African American women as speech community / Jerrilyn McGregory -- "Giving" of Yiddish folksongs as a cultural resource / Joel Saxe -- Newell's paradox redux / Jay Mechling -- Historical narrative in the martial arts: a case study / Thomas A. Green -- Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Eric A. Eliason -- "Up here, we never see the sun": homeplace and crime in urban Appalachian narratives / John R. Williams -- Booze, ritual, and the invention of tradition: the phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In / Pat Byrne -- Shell games in vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the state ... Text Newfoundland Mountain Scholar (Digital Collections of Colorado and Wyoming) Canada |
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Edited by Tad Tuleja. Includes bibliographical references. 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".--Provided by publisher. Through Navajo eyes: pictorial weavings from Spider Woman's loom / Nancy Peake -- Appropriation and counterhegemony in south Texas: food slurs, offal meats, and blood / Mario Montano -- Dyngus Day in Polish American communities / Deborah Anders Silverman -- "May the work I've done speak for me": African American women as speech community / Jerrilyn McGregory -- "Giving" of Yiddish folksongs as a cultural resource / Joel Saxe -- Newell's paradox redux / Jay Mechling -- Historical narrative in the martial arts: a case study / Thomas A. Green -- Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Eric A. Eliason -- "Up here, we never see the sun": homeplace and crime in urban Appalachian narratives / John R. Williams -- Booze, ritual, and the invention of tradition: the phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In / Pat Byrne -- Shell games in vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the state ... |
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