| Description |
349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Ritual one / Ray B. Browne -- Contemporary ritual milieu / Frederick Bird -- Purification and healing rituals in new religious movements / F.R. Westley -- Metaphor in the rituals of restorative and transformative groups / Joseph W. Bastien & David G. Bromley -- Ritual in architecture : the celebration of life / Dennis Alan Mann -- Tnevnoc cult / David G. Bromley & Anson D. Shupe, Jr. -- Roman domestic religion : archaeology of Roman popular art / David Gerald Orr -- Miami's Little Havana : yard shrines, cult religion and landscape / James R. Curtis -- Television viewing as ritual / Michael T. Marsden -- American sporting rituals / David Q. Voigt -- Ritual illustration functioning as substitute imagery : pornography / Alan Gowans -- Minstrel show as ritual : surrogate Black culture / David N. Lyon -- Roast : American ritual satire and humor / George A. Test -- Cult and ritual of toughness in Cold War America / Donald J. Mrozek -- Apocalypse now : Viet-Nam as generative ritual / William P. Kelly -- Myth, ritual and the comic strip G-man / Richard Gid Powers -- American beauty rituals / Christine A. Hope -- Staging the vocational bride or the prom queen turns pro / Juliette B. Woodruff -- Big Mac and Caneton a l'orange : eating, icons and rituals / Pamela Malcolm Curry & Robert M. Jiobu -- World War II as Southern entertainment : the Confederate Air Force and warfare re-enactment ritual / C.R. Chandler -- Dancing and cockfighting at Jay's Lounge and Cockpit : the preservation of folk practices in Cajun Louisiana / Steven L. Del Sesto -- Ritual, process & definition : Hawthorne's The artist of the beautiful and the creative dilemma / C.T. Walters -- In memory of : Artifacts relating to mourning in nineteenth century America / Martha Pike -- Contemporary American funeral ritual / Walter W. Whitaker III -- Consumption as ritual in the high society / David E. Wright & Robert E. Snow -- Ritual and the humanities "intellectual" / Ray B. Browne. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Populaire cultuur. |
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Riten. |
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Ceremoniën. |
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Culture populaire -- États-Unis. |
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États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 20e siècle. |
| Added Author |
Browne, Ray B. (Ray Broadus), 1922-2009.
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| ISBN |
087972160X |
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9780879721602 |
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0879721618 paperback |
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9780879721619 paperback |
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