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Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives

by Kathy Merlock Jackson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780299208301
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Popular Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Popular Press
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  • Pages: 296
  • Original Price: USD 45.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 531 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Popular Culture

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.

Kathy Merlock Jackson is Batten Professor and Coordinator of Communications at Virginia Wesleyan College. She coedits, with William M. Jones, the Journal of American Culture.

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