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Why do we celebrate Halloween? No one gets the day off, and unlike all other major holidays it has no religious or governmental affiliation. A survivor of our pre-Christian, agrarian roots, it has become one of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals on the contemporary American calendar. Jack Santino has put together the first collection of essays to examine the evolution of Halloween from its Celtic origins through its adaptation into modern culture. Using a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, the thirteen essayists examine customs, communities, and material culture to reveal how Halloween has manifested itself throughout all aspects of our society to become not just a marginal survivor of a dying
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Overview

Why do we celebrate Halloween? No one gets the day off, and unlike all other major holidays it has no religious or governmental affiliation. A survivor of our pre-Christian, agrarian roots, it has become one of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals on the contemporary American calendar. Jack Santino has put together the first collection of essays to examine the evolution of Halloween from its Celtic origins through its adaptation into modern culture. Using a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, the thirteen essayists examine customs, communities, and material culture to reveal how Halloween has manifested itself throughout all aspects of our society to become not just a marginal survivor of a dying tradition but a thriving, contemporary, post-industrial festival. Its steadily increasing popularity, despite overcommercialization and criticism, is attributed to its powerful symbolism that employs both pre-Christian images and concepts from popular culture to appeal to groups of all ages, orientations, and backgrounds. However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.

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Describes traditional celebrations that connect death and life as they are practiced today in Ireland, Canada, and the US. The 12 essays explore such elements as bonfires, trick or treat, carnivals, the Greenwich Village parade, the Day of the Dead on the Tex-Mex border. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780870498138
  • Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1994
  • Pages: 312
  • Sales rank: 866,417
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Festivals of Death and Life
Pt. I Customs
1 Harvest, Halloween, and Hogmanay: Acculturation in Some Calendar Customs of the Ulster Scots 3
2 "Safe" Spooks: New Halloween Traditions in Response to Sadism Legends 24
3 Halloween Pranks: "Just a Little Inconvenience" 45
4 Bonfire Night in Brigus, Newfoundland 62
5 Trick or Treat: Pre-Texts and Contexts 82
Pt. II Communities
6 Carnival, Control, and Corporate Culture in Contemporary Halloween Celebrations 105
7 Day of the Dead: The Tex-Mex Tradition 133
8 Adult Halloween Celebrations on the Canadian Prairie 152
9 The Seasonal Context of Halloween: Vermont's Unwritten Law 170
10 Wishes Come True: Designing the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade 187
Pt. III Material Culture
11 Things That Go Snap-Rattle-Clang-Toot-Crank in the Night: Halloween Noisemakers 221
12 Halloween Imagery in Two Southern Settings 247
Selected Bibliography 267
Contributors 273
Index 277
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