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Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America
By Tad Tuleja (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Utah State Univ Pr
Publication date June 1, 1997
Pages 335
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780874212259
ISBN-10 0874212251
Dimensions 1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight 1.05 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $29.95
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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."

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from Utah State Univ Pr (June 1, 1997)
9780874212259 | details & prices | 335 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $29.95
About: 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.
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from Utah State Univ Pr (May 1, 1997)
9780874212266 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $34.95

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