Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewA vivid history of America Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia MastersPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9781592136094ISBN 10: 1592136095 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 June 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Philadelphia Mummers presents overwhelming evidence about the significance and value to the City of Philadelphia of this unique tradition...This carefully written book is a good read for everyone involved with Mummery and a must read for anyone who wants to learn more about it. The Philadelphia Public Record The Philadelphia Mummers provides an insider's look into its longstanding ceremonies, tied to larger culture, and how this annual parade provides community where social integration has otherwise been lost...Well-written, carefully documented, and assiduously researched, The Philadelphia Mummers offers insight into a time-honored tradition, how it has been maintained for over a century, and the crucial role that play serves in forging community ties...It's accessibility, readability, and fascinating tales make it recommended reading for courses in urban sociology, community, sociology of leisure, social change and qualitative methods. If Masters's rendering of the Parade is as accurate as we believe, to paraphrase another W.C. Fields quote, 'we'd rather be in Philadelphia' come next New Year's Day. Contemporary Sociology Masters effectively demonstrates that mummers produced an ongoing 'successful community in a fragmented larger society,' a community in which the act of play is central...Highly recommended. Choice Masters's participant-observer notes bring her sociological study alive...Good writing, great pictures, fine old newspaper quotes. Multicultural Review With her ethnographic detail, Masters offers up a tremendous amount of information useful to students and scholars interested in urban culture and art. The American Journal of Sociology, March 2009 Author InformationPatricia Anne Masters is Term Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
