TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Cindy Dell
AU  - Shweder,Richard A.
TI  - All Together Now: American Holiday Symbolism Among Children and Adults 
T2  - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
SN  - 9781978801981
AV  - GT4803 .C53 2019
U1  - 394.26 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Families
KW  - United States
KW  - Holidays
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Symbolism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978802018?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978802018
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