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Pleck, Elizabeth H. – 2000
This book examines family traditions of over two centuries in the United States and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans have celebrated holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Passover, and Chinese New Year as well as the life cycle rituals of birth, birthdays, coming of age, marriage, and death. The book notes…
Descriptors: Birth, Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics, Cultural Differences
