TY - BOOK AU - Arens,W. AU - Montague,Susan P. TI - The American dimension: cultural myths and social realities SN - 0882840304 : AV - E169.Z8 A6483 U1 - 301.29/73 PY - 1976/// CY - Port Washington, N.Y. PB - Alfred Pub. Co. KW - Ethnology KW - United States KW - Ethnologie KW - États-Unis KW - Social life and customs KW - 1971- KW - Murs et coutumes N1 - 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 UR - http://www.archive.org/details/americandimensio00aren UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL4875529M ER -