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Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780874212259
 
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.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780874212266
 
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