Celebrations of Identity Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performances

Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Acknowledgments Introduction by Pamela R. Frese Observing Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological Fieldwork by Madeline Duntley American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat of Alaska by Edith Turner Sauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as Performances of Identity by John M. Coggeshall Individual and Community in a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in the American South by Gwen Kennedy Neville The Ritual of Testifying in the Black Church by Jon Michael Spencer Powwows, Parades, and Social Drama Among the Waccamaw Sioux by Patricia B. Lerch Anglo-American Mortuary Complex and Cultural Heritage by Pamela R. Frese Ritual Cycles of Exchange: The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S. Borderlands by Carlos G. Velez Ibanez Ethnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi-Mexicans and Others by Karen Leonard Fishing and Drinking in Kodiak by Rachel Mason Coronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the Individual by Michaele Thurgood Haynes The Ritual Cycle of the American Monarch by J.R. McLeod Index About the ContributorsFrese, Pamela R. is the author of 'Celebrations of Identity Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performances' with ISBN 9780897893350 and ISBN 0897893352.