All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life

by Jack Santino

Book Overview

Jack Santino's guide to such festivities is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, family and neighborhood rituals, and life-cycle customs and celebrations. He draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to reveal the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles they play in people's personal and public lives.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252020499
• ISBN13: 9780252020490
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"