Southern heritage on display
Subtitle: public ritual and ethnic diversity within southern regionalism
By: edited by Celeste Ray.
Contributors: Ray, R. Celeste.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Festivals -- Social aspects -- Southern States; Rites and ceremonies -- Southern States; Minorities -- Southern States -- Social life and customs; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Southern States; Group identity -- Southern States; Memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States; Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Southern States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Keeping jazz funerals alive" : blackness and the politics of memory in New Orleans / Helen A. Regis; title: The mardi gras Indian song cycle : a heroic tradition / Kathryn VanSpanckeren; title: "There's a dance every weekend" : powwow culture in southeast North Carolina / Clyde Ellis; title: Melungeons and the politics of heritage / Melissa Schrift; title: Kin-religious gatherings : display for an "inner public" / Gwen Kennedy Neville; title: Religious healing in southern Appalachian communities / Susan Emley Keefe; title: Viva Mexico! : Mexican independence day festivals in central Florida / Joan Flocks and Paul Monaghan; title: Forget the Alamo : fiesta and San Antonio's public memory / Laura Ehrisman; title: "Where the Old South still lives" : displaying heritage in Natchez, Mississippi / Steven Hoelscher; title: "'Thigibh!' means 'y'all come!'" : renegotiating regional memories through Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray.