Tuleja Tad. Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America / Tad Tuleja. — Логан, Юта : Utah State University Press, 1997. — 348 c. — Базовая коллекция ЭБС "БиблиоРоссика". — Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Ourselves Up: On the Manipulation of Tradition in Small Groups. — Tad Tuleja Part I: Marking the Tribal 1. Through Navajo Eyes: Pictorial Weavings from Spider Woman s Loom Nancy Peake. — 2. Appropriation and Counterhegemony in South Texas: Food Slurs, Offal Meats, and Blood Mario Monta o. — 3. Dyngus Day in Polish American Communities. — Deborah Anders Silverman 4. May the Work I ve Done Speak for Me : African American Women as Speech Community. — Jerrilyn McGregory 5. The Giving of Yiddish Folksongs as a Cultural Resource. — Joel Saxe viii Usable Pasts Part II: Intentional Identities 6. Newell s Paradox Redux. — Jay Mechling 7. Historical Narrative in the Martial Arts: A Case Study. — Thomas A. Green 8. Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression. — Eric A. Eliason Part III: The Spirit of Place 9. Up Here, We Never See the Sun : Homeplace and Crime in Urban Appalachian Narratives. — John R. Williams 10. Booze, Ritual, and the Invention of Tradition: The Phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In. — Pat Byrne 11. Shell Games in Vacationland: and Homarus Americanus the State of Maine. — George H. Lewis 12. How Texans Remember the Alamo. — Sylvia Ann Grider Part IV: National Perspectives 13. Kamell Dung : A Challenge to Canada s National Icon. — Robert M. MacGregor 14. Closing the Circle: Yellow Ribbons and the Redemption of the Past. — Tad Tuleja About the Contributors. — URL: http://www.bibliorossica.com/book.html?currBookId=29938. — ISBN 978-0-87421-226-6.
Аннотация
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."
