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Halloween and other festivals of death and life

Summary: Why do we celebrate Halloween? No one gets the day off, and unlike all other major holidays it has no religious or governmental affiliation. A survivor of our pre-Christian, agrarian roots, it has become one of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals on the contemporary American calendar.

Item details

ISBN: 0870498126
ISBN: 9780870498121
ISBN: 0870498134
ISBN: 9780870498138
Physical Description: print
xxviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1994.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Harvest, Halloween, and Hogmanay : acculturation in some calendar customs of the Ulster Scots / Philip Robinson -- "Safe": spooks : new Halloween traditions in response to sadism legends / Bill Ellis -- Halloween pranks : "just a little inconvenience" / Steve Siporin -- Bonfire night in Brigus, Newfoundland / Catherine Schwoeffermann -- Trick or treat : pre-texts and contexts / Tad Tuleja -- Carnival, control, and corporate culture in contemporary Halloween celebrations / Russell W. Belk -- Day of the dead : the Tex-Mex tradition / Kay Turner, Pat Jasper -- Adult Halloween celebrations on the Canadian prairie / Michael Taft -- The seasonal context of Halloween : Vermont's unwritten law / A.W. Sadler -- Wishes come true : designing the Greenwich Village Halloween parade / Jack Kuglemass -- Things that go snap-rattle-clang-toot-crank in the night : Halloween noisemakers / Carl B. Holmberg -- Halloween imagery in two southern settings / Grey Gundaker.