| Description |
x, 285 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Ray and Pat Browne book"--Series t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The endurance of ethnic family rituals / Anne Tuominen -- Stories my father told me / Mark I. West -- Hindu samskāras : milestones of child development / Jyotsna M. Kalavar -- Bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah : rites of affirmation and integration / Ellen J. Narotzky Kennedy -- The American girl at her sampler, ca. 1633-1850 : inspiring a feminine ideal / Luise van Keuren -- The journey to school : illustrations from popular American magazines, 1900-1962 / Barbara Martinson -- The ritual of doll play : implications of understanding children's conceptualization of race / Sabrina Thomas -- Playing the game : rituals in children's games / Sally Sugarman -- Petals and patriarchy : the flower girl in American weddings / Kathy Merlock Jackson -- Newsboy funerals : tales of sorrow and solidarity in urban America / Vincent DiGirolamo -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer and The great brain : liminality, ritual, and race in the construction of the "real American boy" / Leona W. Fisher -- The many faces of childhood : costume as ritualized behavior / Jamie McMinn and H. Alan Pickrell -- Growing up with westerns / Ray Merlock -- From Gigapets to Internet : childhood technology rituals as commodities / Jo Ann Oravec. |
| Subject |
Families -- United States.
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Families. |
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United States. |
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Rites and ceremonies -- United States.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Children -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Children -- Family relationships. |
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Children. |
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Children. |
| Added Author |
Jackson, Kathy Merlock, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0299208303 hardcover alkaline paper |
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