Simon J Bronner

Broschiertes Buch

Grasping Things

Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America

Beschreibung

In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Br

Autor

Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore and director of the Pennsylvania Center for Culture Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is the editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of American Folklife, Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities, Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920, and other volumes, and the author of several books, including Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition, Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies, Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture, and The Carver's Art: Crafting Meaning from Wood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780813191423
• ISBN-10: 0813191424
• Artikelnr.: 22869466