All Together Now - Cindy Dell Clark

All Together Now

American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults
Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0198-1 (ISBN)
154,60 inkl. MwSt
In a hard driving society like the United States, holidays are islands of softness. Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. This book shows how entire families bond at holidays, in ways that allow both children and adults to be influential within their shared interaction.
In a hard driving society like the United States, holidays are islands of softness. Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. All Together Now considers holidays that are celebrated by American families: Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, and the December holidays of Christmas or Chanukah. This book shows how entire families bond at holidays, in ways that allow both children and adults to be influential within their shared interaction. 

The decorations, songs, special ways of dressing, and rituals carry deep significance that is viscerally felt by even young tots. Ritual has the capacity to condense a plethora of meaning into a unified metaphor such as a Christmas tree, a menorah, or the American flag. These symbols allow children and adults to co-opt the meaning of symbols in flexible and age-relevant ways, all while the symbols are still treasured and shared in common. 

Cindy Dell Clark is an associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She is the author of In A Younger Voice: Doing Child-Centered Qualitative Research.  

Contents

Preface           

1          Introduction

2          Spring Season: Easter            

3          Summer Season:  Memorial Day and July 4th           

4          Autumn Season:  Halloween             

5          Winter Season:  Christmas and Chanukah

6          How Ritual Meaning Comes Together            

Appendix:  About This Research       

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-9788-0198-X / 197880198X
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-0198-1 / 9781978801981
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