Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals

by Elizabeth H. Pleck

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Nostalgia for the imagined warm family gatherings of yesteryear has colored our understanding of family celebrations. Elizabeth Pleck examines family traditions over two centuries and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans have celebrated holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, and Passover as well as the life cycle rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. By the early nineteenth century...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674002792

ISBN13:9780674002791

Release Date:May 2000

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:338 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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20th Century Cultural Customs & Traditions Ethnic Studies Holidays Marriage & Family Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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