Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-

Title Pole raising and speech making : modalities of Swedish-American summer celebration / Jennifer Eastman Attebery.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2015]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ritual, festival, and celebration ; volume 3
Ritual, festival, and celebration ; volume 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Focused on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration. Combines folklore and history, to explore various ways Midsummer-related celebrations blended with the American 4thth of July and the Mormon Latter Day Saint Pioneer Day on July 24th"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Spring-to-Summer Celebration: Abundance and Redundancy; 2. Midsummer in the Rockies; 3. A Crowded Celebrations Calendar; 4. Speaking and Writing Celebration; 5. Midsummer Blendings of Sacred and Secular; 6. On Swedish Soil in Grove and Arbor: Private Celebrations in a Middle Landscape; 7. Uneasy Scandinavianism in theSpring-Summer Holidays; 8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages; References; About the Author; Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Festivals -- Rocky Mountains Region.
Festivals.
Manners and customs.
Rocky Mountains Region.
Holidays -- Rocky Mountains region.
Holidays.
Folklore -- Rocky Mountains.
Folklore.
Rocky Mountains.
Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains region -- Social life and customs.
Swedish Americans.
Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs.
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Eastman Attebery, Jennifer. Pole Raising and Speech Making : Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2015 9780874219982
ISBN 9780874219999 (electronic book)
087421999X (electronic book)
9780874219982 (paperback)
0874219981