Pole raising and speech making : modalities of Swedish American summer celebration /

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Author / Creator:Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951- author.
Imprint:Logan : Utah State University Press, [2015]
Description:184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Ritual, festival, and celebration ; volume 3
Ritual, festival, and celebration ; v. 3.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10393654
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ISBN:9780874219982
0874219981
9780874219999
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Focused on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration. Combines folklore and history, to explore various ways Midsummer-related celebrations blended with the American 4thth of July and the Mormon Latter Day Saint Pioneer Day on July 24th"--
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Spring-to-Summer Celebration: Abundance and Redundancy
  • 2. Midsummer in the Rockies
  • 3. A Crowded Celebrations Calendar
  • 4. Speaking and Writing Celebration
  • 5. Midsummer Blendings of Sacred and Secular
  • 6. On Swedish Soil in Grove and Arbor: Private Celebrations in a Middle Landscape
  • 7. Uneasy Scandinavianism in the Spring-Summer Holidays
  • 8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages
  • References
  • About the Author
  • Index