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- catalog abstract ""Whether decorating Easter trees, observing the New Year's Eve ritual of the Hungry Hog Society, or celebrating Wagner's birthday by incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdammerung," Americans combine the traditional and the offbeat as they create new holidays and celebrate old ones." "In All Around the Year, Jack Santino guides the reader through a variety of holidays, festivals, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Drawing from history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore, Santino shows the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles of celebrations and rituals in people's lives. He combines scholarship, field research, and personal reminiscence in this highly readable account of a subject that constitutes a major dimension of our social lives. Nearly fifty illustrations depict holiday symbols and decorations both traditional and contemporary, from greeting cards to wreath-bedecked cars to restaurant menus."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b5730959.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""Whether decorating Easter trees, observing the New Year's Eve ritual of the Hungry Hog Society, or celebrating Wagner's birthday by incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdammerung," Americans combine the traditional and the offbeat as they create new holidays and celebrate old ones." "In All Around the Year, Jack Santino guides the reader through a variety of holidays, festivals, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Drawing from history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore, Santino shows the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles of celebrations and rituals in people's lives. He combines scholarship, field research, and personal reminiscence in this highly readable account of a subject that constitutes a major dimension of our social lives. Nearly fifty illustrations depict holiday symbols and decorations both traditional and contemporary, from greeting cards to wreath-bedecked cars to restaurant menus."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Holidays in America: ritual, festival, and celebration -- Homemade holidays: making symbols, making meaning -- Winter into Spring: celebrating rebirth and renewal -- Toward Midsummer: celebrating the season of the sun -- Autumn into Winter: celebrating death and life.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-222) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 227 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "All around the year.".
- catalog identifier "0252020499 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0252065166 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "All around the year.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "All around the year.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "394.26973 20".
- catalog subject "Festivals United States.".
- catalog subject "GT4803.A2 S26 1994".
- catalog subject "Holidays United States.".
- catalog subject "Seasons United States Folklore.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Holidays in America: ritual, festival, and celebration -- Homemade holidays: making symbols, making meaning -- Winter into Spring: celebrating rebirth and renewal -- Toward Midsummer: celebrating the season of the sun -- Autumn into Winter: celebrating death and life.".
- catalog title "All around the year : holidays and celebrations in American life / Jack Santino.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".