Celebrations of Identity

PAMELA R. FRESE is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She has coedited Transcending Boundaries (Bergin & Garvey, 1991), a multidisciplinary approach to the study of gender.

• Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Pamela R. FreseObserving Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological Fieldwork by Madeline DuntleyAmerican Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat of Alaska by Edith TurnerSauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as Performances of Identity by John M. CoggeshallIndividual and Community in a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in the American South by Gwen Kennedy NevilleThe Ritual of Testifying in the Black Church by Jon Michael SpencerPowwows, Parades, and Social Drama Among the Waccamaw Sioux by Patricia B. LerchAnglo-American Mortuary Complex and Cultural Heritage by Pamela R. FreseRitual Cycles of Exchange: The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S. Borderlands by Carlos G. Vélèz IbáñezEthnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi-Mexicans and Others by Karen LeonardFishing and Drinking in Kodiak by Rachel MasonCoronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the Individual by Michaele Thurgood HaynesThe Ritual Cycle of the American Monarch by J.R. McLeodIndexAbout the Contributors