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All Together Now : American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults / Cindy Dell Clark.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Rutgers Series in Childhood StudiesPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978801981
  • 9781978802018
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.26 23
LOC classification:
  • GT4803 .C53 2019
  • GT4803 .C53 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spring Season: Easter -- 3. Summer Season: Memorial Day and July 4th -- 4. Autumn Season: Halloween -- 5. Winter Season: Christmas and Chanukah -- 6. How Ritual Meaning Comes Together -- Appendix: About This Research -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In a hard driving society like the United States, holidays are islands of softness. Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. All Together Now considers holidays that are celebrated by American families: Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, and the December holidays of Christmas or Chanukah. This book shows how entire families bond at holidays, in ways that allow both children and adults to be influential within their shared interaction. The decorations, songs, special ways of dressing, and rituals carry deep significance that is viscerally felt by even young tots. Ritual has the capacity to condense a plethora of meaning into a unified metaphor such as a Christmas tree, a menorah, or the American flag. These symbols allow children and adults to co-opt the meaning of symbols in flexible and age-relevant ways, all while the symbols are still treasured and shared in common.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spring Season: Easter -- 3. Summer Season: Memorial Day and July 4th -- 4. Autumn Season: Halloween -- 5. Winter Season: Christmas and Chanukah -- 6. How Ritual Meaning Comes Together -- Appendix: About This Research -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In a hard driving society like the United States, holidays are islands of softness. Holidays are times for creating memories and for celebrating cultural values, emotions, and social ties. All Together Now considers holidays that are celebrated by American families: Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, and the December holidays of Christmas or Chanukah. This book shows how entire families bond at holidays, in ways that allow both children and adults to be influential within their shared interaction. The decorations, songs, special ways of dressing, and rituals carry deep significance that is viscerally felt by even young tots. Ritual has the capacity to condense a plethora of meaning into a unified metaphor such as a Christmas tree, a menorah, or the American flag. These symbols allow children and adults to co-opt the meaning of symbols in flexible and age-relevant ways, all while the symbols are still treasured and shared in common.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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