books by Jack Santino

books by Jack Santino

books:

Jack Santino

Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life

University of Tennessee Press, 1994

A fantastic book on fall and harvest folk customs. Wow!!
This book remains one of my all-time favorite books on folk holidays. A series of essays on various fall and harvest celebrations, it centers around Halloween, but branches out to discuss celebrations from Christmas mummers parades of the Ulster Scots and cutting the ...

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters (Publications of the American Folklore ...

Jack Santino

University of Illinois Press, 1989

Heavy on Racism, Light on Folklore
Based both on its title and on the fact that this book is a publication of the American Folklore Society, I expected to find a collection of first-person reminiscences, perhaps embellished as all effective stories are embellished by their tellers, though retaining ...

The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland (Irish Literature, ...

Jack Santino

University Press of Kentucky, 1998

Modern Slant on Age-old Customs
There are many books on Halloween (including another by Jack Santino), but this book is unique in presenting a look at how very old customs have persisted amid the social turmoil and political unrest of Northern Ireland. Since Santino is an American folklorist, one ...

New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture

Jack Santino

University of Tennessee Press, 1996

Commercialization and Holidays
From back cover: "Every year, as each holiday rolls around, American popular culture is suddenly awash in images associated with that festivity. While Christmas has been the most obviously commercialized celebration, Halloween, Easter, the Fourth of July, Hanukkah, ...

All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life
Jack Santino

University of Illinois Press, 1995

Jack Santino's guide to such festivities is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, family and neighborhood rituals, and life-cycle customs and celebrations. He draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to reveal the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles they play in people's personal and public lives.

Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Spontaneous shrines have emerged, both in the United States and internationally, as a way to mourn those who have died a sudden or shocking death, and to acknowledge the circumstances of the deaths. The contributors to Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death address events such as the Texas A&M bonfire collapse, the Pentagon ...

Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Uses of Symbols in Public in Northern Ireland

Jack Santino

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Good analysis of a complex situation
This book is an analysis of the ways in which the various factions in the conflict in Northern Ireland express their views in public ways-- murals, parades, and other kids of displays. Santino does a nice job of covering complex ground. Some symbols are used in ...