Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals,

by Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck

Nostalgia for the imagined warm family gatherings of yesteryear has colored our understanding of family celebrations. Elizabeth Pleck examines family traditions over two centuries and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans have celebrated holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, and Passover as well as the life cycle rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. By the early nineteenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400230X
• ISBN13: 9780674002302
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"