Prenuptial Rituals In Scotland
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Prenuptial Rituals In Scotland
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Author : Sheila M. Young
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-10-11
Prenuptial Rituals In Scotland written by Sheila M. Young and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-11 with Social Science categories.
The hen (or bachelorette) party, with its groups of visible, raucous women on trains, planes, and in public spaces is ubiquitous throughout the English-speaking world. The practice of the blackening, a unique form of kidnapping and “punishment” ritual, is limited to North Eastern parts of Scotland and to specific sectors of the population. Both are prenuptial rituals enacted by women. In Prenuptial Rituals in Scotland, Sheila Young produces a thorough description of how these two rituals were and are enacted and analyzes the ways these practices have changed through time as a social commentary. Young’s study provides valuable insights into identity, gender, social class, contemporary attitudes to ritual, and what it means to approach marriage in the twenty first century.
Rites Of Marrying
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Author : S. R. Charsley
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1991
Rites Of Marrying written by S. R. Charsley and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Marriage customs and rites categories.
Noting that there is a lot of controversy these days about marriage, but that everyone still likes a wedding, Charsley (sociology, U. of Glasgow) looses his discipline on his own culture, and examines both the secular and religious aspects of the betrothal period and the wedding day in Scotland. Being married himself, he draws on his own experience as well as that of wedding professionals and ministers and priests. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Oral Traditions In Contemporary China
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Author : Juwen Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Oral Traditions In Contemporary China written by Juwen Zhang and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Social Science categories.
In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, proverbs, ballads, and folksongs that are vibrantly practiced today. Zhang establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how Chinese culture has continued for thousands of years with vitality and validity, core and arbitrary identity markers, and folkloric identity. This framework, which describes a cultural self-healing mechanism, is equally applicable to the exploration of other traditions and cultures in the world. Through topics from Chinese Cinderella to the Grimms of China, from proverbs like “older ginger is spicier” to the life-views held by the Chinese, and from mountain songs and ballads to the musical instruments like the clay-vessel-flute, the author weaves these oral traditions across time and space into a mesmerizing intellectual journey. Focusing on contemporary practice, this book serves as a bridge between Chinese and international folklore scholarship and other related disciplines as well. Those interested in Chinese culture in general and Chinese folklore, literature, and oral tradition in particular will certainly delight in perusing this book.
Alcohol Age Generation And The Life Course
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Author : Thomas Thurnell-Read
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-08
Alcohol Age Generation And The Life Course written by Thomas Thurnell-Read and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-08 with Social Science categories.
This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with identity and belonging and considers how drinking alcohol in adolescence, adulthood, middle-age or later life takes on different functions, meanings and tensions. Alcohol is shown to play an important role in biographical transitions, such as in the coming of age rituals that mark the passage from adolescences to adulthood, whilst drinking alcohol in adulthood and in later life takes on new meanings, pleasures and risks in light of shifting roles and responsibilities relating to work, leisure and the family. The empirically-informed contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and a range of cultural contexts provides a nuanced examination of the role of alcohol at different life course stages and explores both continuity and change between generations.
Getting Married In Scotland
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Author : Iona McGregor
language : en
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland
Release Date : 2000
Getting Married In Scotland written by Iona McGregor and has been published by National Museums of Scotland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Plain and fancy folk customs on such as why the bride is carried over the threshold in Western marriages - from bawdy Elizabethan rituals to Hugh Grant as an eligible catch in the movies.
Black Folklorists In Pursuit Of Equality
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Author : Ronald LaMarr Sharps
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-06-16
Black Folklorists In Pursuit Of Equality written by Ronald LaMarr Sharps and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-16 with Social Science categories.
After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of American life—social, cultural, political, and economic. In pursuit of equality, African American movements interpreted folklore to reveal in their rhetoric the soul of a race and a path toward civilization. This book provides a comprehensive chronicle of these competing initiatives and their reception starting with the folklore society organized by Hampton Institute in 1893 and continuing through the early 1940s with the American Negro Academy, Fisk University graduates, William Hannibal Thomas, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the Friends of Negro Freedom, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and blacks associated with the Communist Party USA. Disavowing a culture of fear, money, guns, and death, black folklorists in these movements exposed a racial inner life ranging from loving, loyal, and happy to imitative, tragic, spiritual, emotional, and creative. Each characterization of the race justified a distinct path and possible contributions to civilization. If unable to know their past, members of the movements and other folklorists were fearful that African Americans would be an anomaly among humanity.
James Buchanan Elmore 1857 1942
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Author : Ronald L. Baker
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-08-15
James Buchanan Elmore 1857 1942 written by Ronald L. Baker and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
James Buchanan Elmore (1857–1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a “folk poet,” emphasizing the importance in the cultural understanding of the ethnographic insights he gave as a farmer in the midwestern region of the United States that experienced dramatic social change after the Civil War. In song and verse, folk poets write of community events and personalities associated with them and of manifestations of natural forces with effects upon society. Often about locations overlooked by national historians and anthropologists, these writings are valued for their interpretations as participants within the cultural expressions describing group feeling and thought. By many estimates, Elmore left the largest legacy of folk poetic material in the United States, but not until now has a folklorist analyzed this rich trove of documentation for understanding the shifting folklife of the Midwest amid cultural shifts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baker illustrates that Elmore shows more similarities to folk poets such as South Carolina's Bard of the Congaree, journeyman printer J. Gordon Coogler (1865–1901), than with academic poets Wallace Stevens or even James Whitcomb Riley. Aptly nicknamed the Bard of Alamo, Elmore was his community's laureate—the voice of the-people—living in Indiana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and a recorder of folklife from the 1830s on the frontier until after the Civil War when industrialization swept through the nation.
Perspectives On East And Southeast Asian Folktales
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Author : Allyssa McCabe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-08-23
Perspectives On East And Southeast Asian Folktales written by Allyssa McCabe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-23 with Social Science categories.
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales is a multidisciplinary examination of folktales that are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Examining folktales from countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea, the contributors consider various aspects: including identity issues, morals, collectivism, violence, scatological references, language socialization, representation of Buddhist values, emotional competence, as well as folktales' relationship to idioms and narrative structure. Highlighting differences and similarities between East and Southeast Asian and Western folktales, this volume promotes memorable understanding of East and Southeast Asian cultures and their oral traditions.
Humor And Rumor In The Post Soviet Authoritarian State
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Author : Anastasiya Astapova
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Humor And Rumor In The Post Soviet Authoritarian State written by Anastasiya Astapova and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Belarus, an example of an authoritarian state, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State presents over one hundred contemporary political jokes in the contexts of their performance. Throughout, Anastasiya Astapova demonstrates the salience of the joke genre, the multiplicity of humor manifestations, and the fundamental presence of intertextual links between jokes and another folk genre—rumor. Informed by real-life fieldwork in an authoritarian regime, Humor and Rumor in the Post-Soviet Authoritarian State challenges many common theories of political humor, including the interpretation of political jokes as weapons of the weak. It illustrates how jokes and rumors remind communities of their fears, support paranoia, shape conformist behavior, and, consequently, reinforce the existing hegemony. In this rare study on everyday life in and reactions to repressive regimes, Astapova unveils political humor as it is lived.
Spring Man
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Author : Petr Janecek
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Spring Man written by Petr Janecek and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with Social Science categories.
Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous, ghostly denizen of oral culture. Petr Janeček analyzes the archetypal character, social context, and cultural significance of this fascinating phenomenon with the help of dozens of accounts provided by period eyewitnesses, oral narratives, and other sources. At the same time, the author illustrates the international origin of the tales in the originally British migratory legend of Spring-heeled Jack that reaches back to the second-third of the nineteenth century, and Janeček also draws parallels between the Czech myth of Spring Man and similar urban phantom narratives popular in the 1910s Russia, 1940s United States and Slovakia, and 1950s Germany, as well as other parts of the world.