Celebrating the Family : : Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals / / Elizabeth H. Pleck.
Nostalgia for the imagined warm family gatherings of yesteryear has colored our understanding of family celebrations. Elizabeth Pleck examines family traditions over two centuries and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans have celebrated holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thank...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE Festivals, Rites, and Presents
- CHAPTER TWO Family, Feast, and Football
- CHAPTER THREE Holiday Blues and Pfeffernusse
- CHAPTER FOUR Easter Breads and Bunnies
- CHAPTER FIVE Festival of Freedom
- CHAPTER SIX Eating and Explosives
- CHAPTER SEVEN Cakes and Candles
- CHAPTER EIGHT Rites of Passage
- CHAPTER NINE Please Omit Flowers
- CHAPTER TEN The Bride Once Wore Black
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Rituals, Families, and Identities
- Notes
- Index