Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore and director of the Pennsylvania Center for Culture Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is the editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of American Folklife, Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities, Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920, and other volumes, and the author of several books, including Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition, Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies, Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture, and The Carver’s Art: Crafting Meaning from Wood.
34 E-böcker av Simon J. Bronner
Simon J. Bronner: Folk Nation
This lively reader traces the search for American tradition and national identity through folklore and folklife from the 19th century to the present. Through an engaging set of essays, Folk Nation sh …
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€46.51
Simon J. Bronner: Killing Tradition
Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting. Children are taken on rite-of-passage hunting trips, where relationships are cemented and legacies a …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner: Explaining Traditions
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out th …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner: The Carver’s Art
Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside—all ’made with just a pocketknife’—are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what i …
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Simon J. Bronner: Grasping Things
America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the ’back to the city’ housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In In …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner: Lafcadio Hearn’s America
The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American lif …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner: The Practice of Folklore
Winner of the 2020 Chicago Folklore Prize CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, oft …
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€29.99
Simon J. Bronner: Campus Traditions
From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. B …
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Simon J. Bronner: Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, …
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€129.97
Simon J. Bronner: Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, …
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€128.33
Simon J. Bronner: Killing Tradition
Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting. Children are taken on rite-of-passage hunting trips, where relationships are cemented and legacies a …
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€208.26
Simon J. Bronner: Explaining Traditions
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out th …
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€243.18
Simon J. Bronner: Folklore: The Basics
Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs …
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€25.40
Simon J. Bronner: Folklore: The Basics
Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs …
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€25.69
Clark Cindy Dell Clark & Bronner Simon J. Bronner: Youth Cultures in America
What are the components of youth cultures today? This encyclopedia examines the facets of youth cultures and brings them to the forefront.Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in clas …
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€196.17
Simon J. Bronner: Greater Harrisburg’s Jewish Community
The Jewish community of Greater Harrisburg became established after 1825, mostly by German immigrants who took up peddling and clothing trades. They were attracted inland from East Coast cities to Ha …
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€16.48
Michael Barton & Simon J. Bronner: Steelton
For much of the 20th century, the name Steelton represented a great industrial complex that stretched nearly four miles along the Susquehanna River near the state, s capital of Harrisburg. Immigrants …
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€16.67
Jeffrey Veidlinger: Going to the People
"A remarkable achievement, demonstrating the vitality of Jewish folklore and ethnographic studies a hundred years after An-sky’s pioneering expedition." -Folklore Taking S. An-sky’s expedit …
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€19.11
Simon J Bronner: Encyclopedia of American Folklife
American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia expl …
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€64.20
Simon J Bronner: Encyclopedia of American Folklife
American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia expl …
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€64.18
Simon J. Bronner: Jewish Cultural Studies
Defines the distinctive field of Jewish cultural studies and its basis in folkloristic, psychological, and ethnological approaches. Jewish Cultural Studiescharts the contours and boundaries of Jewish …
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€51.46
Simon J. Bronner: Grasping Things
America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the ’back to the city’ housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In In …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner: The Carver’s Art
Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside—all ’made with just a pocketknife’—are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what i …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner: Americanness
Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States analyzes several core themes that connect Americans because of, and despite, their pronounced diversity.The book investigates …
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€47.49
Simon J. Bronner: Americanness
Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States analyzes several core themes that connect Americans because of, and despite, their pronounced diversity.The book investigates …
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€47.51
Simon J. Bronner: Lafcadio Hearn’s America
The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American lif …
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€38.99
Simon J. Bronner & Joshua R. Brown: Pennsylvania Germans
This comprehensive encyclopedia-the first of its kind-maps out three hundred years of German history and culture in Pennsylvania and beyond.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choi …
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€87.47
Simon J. Bronner: Practice of Folklore
Winner of the 2020 Chicago Folklore Prize CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, ofte …
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€38.61
Simon J. Bronner & Toms Kencis: Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands
Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing …
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€44.84
Simon J. Bronner: American Folklore Studies
Folklore. Washington Irving and Mark Twain used it in their fiction; Sigmund Freud and William James incorporated it into their work; Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt promoted it. Their efforts were …
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€28.99
Clark Cindy Dell Clark & Bronner Simon J. Bronner: Youth Cultures in America
What are the components of youth cultures today? This encyclopedia examines the facets of youth cultures and brings them to the forefront.Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in clas …
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€197.16
Linda Garland Page & Hilton Smith: The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games
Part oral history and part rule book, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games is a joyous collection of memories of playing indoor and outdoor games; of making dolls, homemade board games, pla …
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€17.99
Ronald L. Baker: James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942)
James Buchanan Elmore (18571942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a ’;folk poet, ’ emphasizing the importance in the cultural understanding of the ethnograp …
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€45.04
Alan Dundes: Meaning of Folklore
The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journal …
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€50.20