Mardi Gras, gumbo, and zydeco : readings in Louisiana culture / / edited by Marcia Gaudet, James C. McDonald.

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 179 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mardi Gras and the media : who's fooling whom? / Barry Jean Ancelet
  • Buffalo Bill and the Mardi Gras Indians / Michael P. Smith
  • Every man a king : world view, social tension, and carnival in New Orleans / Frank De Caro and Tom Ireland
  • Mardi Gras chase / Glen Pitre
  • The New Orleans king cake in southwest Louisiana / Marcia Gaudet
  • Christmas bonfires in south Louisiana : tradition and innovation / Marcia Gaudet
  • The Creole tradition / Michael Tisserand
  • Hidden nation : the Houmas speak / Barbara Sillery
  • Some accounts of witch riding / Patricia K. Rickels
  • Charlene Richard : folk veneration among the Cajuns / Marcia Gaudet
  • Ote voir ta sacre soutane : anti-clerical humor in French Louisiana / Barry Jean Ancelet
  • The social and symbolic uses of ethnic/regional foodways : Cajuns and crawfish in south Louisiana / C. Paige Gutierrez
  • Is it Cajun, or is it Creole? / Marcia Gaudet.