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Celebrating the Family : Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals
Celebrating the Family Ethnicity Consumer Culture and Family Rituals Author:Elizabeth H. Pleck Elizabeth Pleck examines two centuries of changing family traditions and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans celebrate holidays, as well as the life cycle rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. This multicultural, comparative history of American family celebration, rich in detail and spiced with telling anec... more »dotes and illustrations and a keen sense of irony, offers insight into the significance of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping what people regard as the most memorable moments of family life.« less