Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Making Ourselves Up: On the Manipulation of Tradition in Small Groups
Part I: Marking the “Tribal”
1. Through Navajo Eyes: Pictorial Weavings from Spider Woman’s Loom
2. Appropriation and Counterhegemony in South Texas: Food Slurs, Offal Meats, and Blood
3. Dyngus Day in Polish American Communities
4. “May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me”: African American Women as Speech Community
5. The “Giving” of Yiddish Folksongs as a Cultural Resource
Part II: Intentional Identities
6. Newell’s Paradox Redux
7. Historical Narrative in the Martial Arts: A Case Study
8. Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression
Part III: The Spirit of Place
9. “Up Here,We Never See the Sun”: Homeplace and Crime in Urban Appalachian Narratives
10. Booze, Ritual, and the Invention of Tradition: The Phenomenon of the Newfoundland Screech-In
11. Shell Games in Vacationland: Homarus Americanus and the State of Maine
12. How Texans Remember the Alamo
Part IV: National Perspectives
13. “Kamell Dung”: A Challenge to Canada’s National Icon
14. Closing the Circle: Yellow Ribbons and the Redemption of the Past
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