Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
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"While some speculate that ritual in American society is waning, nothing could be further from the truth. However, rituals are in flux, reflecting the rise of single-parent and blended families, changing trends in careers and lifestyles, the digital explosion, and the power of American mass culture."—Kathy Merlock Jackson
Book Description
Trick-or-treating. Flower girls. Bedtime stories. Bar and bat mitvah. In a nation of increasing ethnic, familial, and technological complexity, the patterns of children's lives both persist and evolve. This book considers how such events shape identity and transmit cultural norms, asking such questions as:
* How do immigrant families negotiate between old traditions and new?
* What does it mean when children engage in ritual insults and sick jokes?
* How does playing with dolls reflect and construct feelings of racial identity?
* Whatever happened to the practice of going to the Saturday matinee to see a Western?
* What does it mean for a child to be (in the words of one bride) "flower-girl material"? How does that role
cement a girl's bond to her family and initiate her into society?
* What is the function of masks and costumes, and why do children yearn for these accoutrements of disguise?
Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives suggests the manifold ways in which America's children come to know their society and themselves.
Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives (Ray and Pat Browne Book),Kathy Merlock Jackson,Popular Press 3,0299208303,Child Development,Children,Customs & Traditions,Family,Family & Relationships,Family And Child Development,Family relationships,Family/Marriage,Manners And Customs,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Rites and ceremonies,United States,Social Science / Popular Culture
Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
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