Consumer Rites
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 27, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780691017211
Subjects: American history; Cultural studies; Customs; Leisure; Religion: general; Religious festivals; Social history; Social Science; Sociology; Religion; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; Customs & Traditions; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: IN FEBRUARY 1900 one of the nation's leading trade papers, the Dry Goods Chronicle, set out the modern vision of the commercial possibilities of holidays.