Celebrating the Family
Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals
Seiten
2000
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00279-1 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00279-1 (ISBN)
Pleck examines two centuries of family traditions and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans celebrate holidays, as well as the rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. This comparative history offers insight into the impact of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping the most memorable moments of family life.
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 carnivalesque celebrations outside the home were becoming sentimental occasions that used consumer culture and displays of status and wealth to celebrate the idea of home and family. The 1960s saw the full emergence of a postsentimental approach to holiday celebration, which takes place outside as often as inside the home, and recognizes changes in the family and women's roles, as well as the growth of ethnic group consciousness.
This multicultural, comparative history of American family celebration, rich in detail and spiced with telling anecdotes and illustrations and a keen sense of irony, offers insight into the significance of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping what people regard as the most memorable moments of family life.
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 carnivalesque celebrations outside the home were becoming sentimental occasions that used consumer culture and displays of status and wealth to celebrate the idea of home and family. The 1960s saw the full emergence of a postsentimental approach to holiday celebration, which takes place outside as often as inside the home, and recognizes changes in the family and women's roles, as well as the growth of ethnic group consciousness.
This multicultural, comparative history of American family celebration, rich in detail and spiced with telling anecdotes and illustrations and a keen sense of irony, offers insight into the significance of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping what people regard as the most memorable moments of family life.
Elizabeth Pleck is Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the author of Domestic Tyranny: The Making of Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present.
Acknowledgments 1. Festivals, Rites, and Presents 2. Family, Feast, and Football 3. Holiday Blues and Pfeffernusse 4. Easter Breads and Bunnies 5. Festival of Freedom 6. Eating and Explosives 7. Cakes and Candles 8. Rites of Passage 9. Please Omit Flowers 10. The Bride Once Wore Black 11. Rituals, Families, and Identities Notes Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.8.2000 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 halftones, 3 tables |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-00279-2 / 0674002792 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00279-1 / 9780674002791 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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