The Festive State

The Festive State

Author: David M. Guss

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-01-02

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780520924864

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If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings. Guss investigates "the ideology of tradition," combining four case studies in a radical multisite ethnography to demonstrate how in each instance concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined. In a narrative as colorful as the events themselves, Guss presents the Afro-Venezuelan celebration of San Juan, the "neo-Indian" Day of the Monkey, the mestizo ritual of Tamunangue, and the cultural policies and products of a British multinational tobacco corporation. All these illustrate the remarkable fluidity of festive behavior as well as its importance in articulating different cultural interests.


Christmas on State Street

Christmas on State Street

Author: Robert P. Ledermann

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780738519722

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"This book vividly recreates ... a Christmas holiday trip down State Street. You will visit many of the major shops and stores that existed during the 1940's and beyond, viewing old display windows and getting reacquainted with famous Christmas characters ..."--p. [4] of cover.


A Country Village Christmas

A Country Village Christmas

Author: Suzanne Snow

Publisher: Canelo

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1800325460

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Can the magic of Christmas and the community of Thorndale bring two lost souls together in love? Olivia doesn’t have time for Christmas or for romance – she’s got a demanding career and has been burned before when it comes to love. This year, she’s spending the festive season in her dad’s old house, packing it up now that he’s moved out. Her dad failed to mention she wouldn’t be spending her time there alone... The last thing Olivia expects is for her surprise guest to be the very man who literally ran from her after an evening of mutual flirtation. But Tom has nowhere else to go and Olivia is determined to forget the disappointment she felt at his abandonment and instead help him find his way again. As heavy snow keeps them inside the cottage, will their enforced confinement spark romance once again – or will it push them further apart? The perfect festive romance to curl up with, for fans of Victoria Walters and Trisha Ashley. Praise for A Country Village Christmas'Warm and comforting and realistic and heartwarming and funny. It’s got everything a real family Christmas should have.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 'The writing evokes a real sense of community, with friendship and family at the heart, and the main characters are well drawn. I could easily imagine this book being made into a "feel good" movie. Perfect if you're looking for an uplifting light read - a cosy novel with a seasonal and romantic theme.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 'This was my first visit to Thorndale and after enjoying this peep into the village I can't wait to explore more books by this author. It's a book you will want to devour in one sitting, snuggled up with a hot chocolate.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review 'I absolutely loved this beautiful, cosy, heartwarming read that was so much more than just a Christmas book. This was the perfect escapism read.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review


The Twelve Days of Christmas in New Jersey

The Twelve Days of Christmas in New Jersey

Author: Margaret Woollatt

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781402738166

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Susan joins her cousin Andy in New Jersey to celebrate Christmas and writes home to tell her parents about what she's seeing and doing in the Garden State, in this fun picture book based on the classic Christmas song. Full color.


The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington

The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington

Author: John Abbott Nez

Publisher: Twelve Days of Christmas in Am

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781454927952

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In this cumulative rhyme based on "The Twelve Days of Christmas," Max receives gifts from his cousin related to the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Washington. Includes facts about Washington.


Christmas in America

Christmas in America

Author: David Cohen

Publisher: Harper San Francisco

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780002179683

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Captioned photographs depict Christmas time throughout the United States.


Landscape, Culture, and Belonging

Landscape, Culture, and Belonging

Author: Neeladri Bhattacharya

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1108753140

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This collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.


Prayer in the City

Prayer in the City

Author: Patrick A. Desplat

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 383941945X

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This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as »sacred«. Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences.


San Antonio on Parade

San Antonio on Parade

Author: Judith Berg-Sobré

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781585442225

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Recounts the events of six historic festivals in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of the nineteenth century, describing each event's pageantry, parades, competitions, and participants.