All Around the Year(English, Paperback, Santino Jack)

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All Around the Year(English, Paperback, Santino Jack) is written by Santino Jack and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252065166 (ISBN 10) and 9780252065163 (ISBN 13).

Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "GotterdAEmerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.