The American dimension : : cultural myths and social realities / [electronic resource] / [edited by] W. Arens, Susan P. Montague.. — Port Washington, N.Y. : : Alfred Pub. Co.,, c1976.. — xvii, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Professional football : an American symbol and ritual / W. Arens -- A structuralist appreciation of "Star trek" / Peter J. Claus -- Football games and rock concerts : the ritual enactment / Susan P. Montague and Robert Morais -- Good Marx for the anthropologist : structure and anti-structure in Duck Soup / Ivan Karp -- Homes and homemakers on American TV / John T. Kirkpatrick -- Soap operas : sagas of American kinship / Susan S. Bean -- How Nancy gets her man : an investigation of success models in American adolescent pulp literature / Susan P. Montague -- Chaos triumphant : archetypes and symbols in The Exorcist / John W. Burton and David Hicks -- The bagel : symbol and ritual at the breakfast table / Stanley Regelson -- Coffee : the bottomless cup / Lawrence Taylor -- Fair-weather friend : label and context in middle class friendships / David Jacobson -- Mooshining in southern Illinois / Phil C. Weigand --Poker an the American dream / Rex L. Jones -- The strangeness of astrology : an ethnography of credibility processes / Suzanne M. Wedow -- Volunteer firemen : altruism in action / Alan H. Jacobs -- American patterns of health-care-seeking behavior / Noel J. Chrisman.
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