Format: Paperback
Pages: 546
ISBN: 9780813165868
Pub Date: 20 Aug 2015
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Material Worlds
Illustrations: 49 illustrations
Description:
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J.