Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity Within Southern Regionalism

by Celeste Ray

Book Overview

How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South

* A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland games atop Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the reader is exposed to a diverse southern culture, or heritage, that is often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817312277
• ISBN13: 9780817312275
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.5"