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Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life - by Jack Santino (Paperback)

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  • Why do we celebrate Halloween?
  • About the Author: The Editor: Jack Santino is an associate professor in the department of popular culture at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
  • 312 Pages
  • Social Science, Holidays (non-religious)

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Why do we celebrate Halloween? No one gets the day off, and unlike all other major holidays it has no religious or governmental affiliation. A survivor of our pre-Christian, agrarian roots, it has become one of the most popular and widely celebrated festivals on the contemporary American calendar.

Jack Santino has put together the first collection of essays to examine the evolution of Halloween from its Celtic origins through its adaptation into modern culture. Using a wide variety of perspectives and approaches, the thirteen essayists examine customs, communities, and material culture to reveal how Halloween has manifested itself throughout all aspects of our society to become not just a marginal survivor of a dying tradition but a thriving, contemporary, post-industrial festival. Its steadily increasing popularity, despite overcommercialization and criticism, is attributed to its powerful symbolism that employs both pre-Christian images and concepts from popular culture to appeal to groups of all ages, orientations, and backgrounds. However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque.

Halloween and other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.



About the Author



The Editor: Jack Santino is an associate professor in the department of popular culture at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.98 Inches (H) x 6.04 Inches (W) x .79 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.11 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 312
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Holidays (non-religious)
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Jack Santino
Language: English
Street Date: May 25, 1994
TCIN: 1005012686
UPC: 9780870498138
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-2352
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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