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Usable Pasts : Traditions and Group Expressions in North America
author
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Tuleja, Tad
publisher
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Utah State University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
087421226X
print isbn13
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9780874212266
ebook isbn13
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9780585034355
language
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English
subject
Minorities--United States--Social life and customs, Minorities--Canada--Social life and customs, Ethnology--United States, Ethnology--Canada.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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E184.A1U83 1997eb
ddc
:
305.8/00973
subject
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Minorities--United States--Social life and customs, Minorities--Canada--Social life and customs, Ethnology--United States, Ethnology--Canada.
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Usable Pasts
Traditions and Group Expressions in North America
Edited by Tad Tuleja
Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 1997
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Disclaimer: Some images in the original hardcopy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright 1997 Utah State University Press All rights reserved
Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 84322-7800
Typography by WolfPack Cover design by Michelle Sellers
Cover illustrations. Front cover above: Deborah Anders Silverman. Steven Cleves Weber Collection; photo courtesy of David Cook/Fine American Art. George Lewis. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; courtesy of the Historical Department, Archives Division; used by permission. Jim Gambaro. Front cover below: Clark Kelley Price; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; courtesy of the Museum of Church History and Art; used by permission. Courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Joel Saxe. Deborah Anders Silverman. Bert and Brenda Lazar Collection; photo by Martha Lochert. George Lewis. Back cover: Minerva K. Teichert; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; courtesy of the Museum of Church History and Art; used by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Usable pasts: traditions and group expressions in North America / edited by Tad Tuleja. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87421-226-X (paper)
ISBN 0-87421-225-1 (cloth) 1. MinoritiesUnited StatesSocial life and customs. 2. MinoritiesCanadaSocial life and customs. 3. EthnologyUnited States. 4. EthnologyCanada. I. Tuleja, Tad, 1944-. E184.A1U83 1997 305.8'00973dc2196-51304 CIP
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With gratitude to George Carey and Brooke Thomas
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The past isn't dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction. Making Ourselves Up: On the Manipulation of Tradition in Small Groups
Tad Tuleja
1
Part 1: MARKING THE "TRIBAL"
1. Through Navajo Eyes: Pictorial Weavings from Spider Woman's Loom
Nancy Peake
24
2. Appropriation and Counterhegemony in South Texas: Food Slurs, Offal Meats, and Blood
Mario Montao
50
3. Dyngus Day in Polish American Communities
Deborah Anders Silverman
68
4. "May the Work I've Done Speak for Me": African American Women as Speech Community
Jerrilyn McGregory
96
5. The "Giving" of Yiddish Folksongs as a Cultural Resource
Joel Saxe
120
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PART II: INTENTIONAL IDENTITIES
6. Newell's Paradox Redux
Jay Mechling
140
7. Historical Narrative in the Martial Arts: A Case Study
Thomas A. Green
156
8. Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression
Eric A. Eliason
175
PART III: THE SPIRIT OF PLACE
9. "Up Here, We Never See the Sun": Homeplace and Crime in Urban Appalachian Narratives
John R. Williams
215
10. Booze, Ritual, and the Invention of Tradition: The Phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In
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