TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuleja,Tad
TI  - Usable pasts: traditions and group expressions in North America 
SN  - 9780874213348
AV  - E184.A1 U83 1997eb
U1  - 305.8/00973 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Logan, Utah
PB  - Utah State University Press
KW  - Minorities
KW  - United States
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Canada
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Minorit�es
KW  - �Etats-Unis
KW  - M�urs et coutumes
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Kulturanthropologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Nationale Minderheit
KW  - Moeurs et coutumes
KW  - ram
KW  - Nordamerika
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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 of Maine; George H. Lewis --; How Texans remember the Alamo; Sylvia Ann Grider --; "Kamell Dung": a challenge to Canada's national icon; Robert M. MacGregor --; Closing the circle: yellow ribbons and the redemption of the past; Tad Tuleja; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "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.""--Publisher's description
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