Translating Tradition

Name: Translating Tradition
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ISBN: 9780321105776

ISBN-10: 032110577X

ISBN-13: 9780321105776

Edition: 2004

Authors: Karen E. Beardslee, Karen E. Beardslee

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Part of the Longman Topics reader series, Translating Tradition examines how we engage in traditions as family and community members to connect with the past, negotiate the present, and envision the future. This brief collection of readings focuses on the value of tradition's role in shaping our lives. Thought-provoking selections ask students to think about relevant themes: handing down family heirlooms and family legacies; preserving family and community history through story; and exploring cross cultural traditions. Featuring a dual organization, readings in each chapter model a particular rhetorical mode as well as explore a specific theme. Brief apparatus helps students write more…

Book details

List price: $34.40
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface for Instructors and Students



Recognizing Folklore



Description: Heirlooms and Legacies


The Readings


The Grammar of Silk



Heritage



Inspired Eccentricity



The Kitchen



Walking in Lucky Shoes



Sample Student Essay:My Great-grandfather's Shaving Brush




Narration: Stories and Storytellers


The Readings


A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood



Wideman's Father Stories



Excerpt from N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain


Remembering Lobo



Joy of Funerals



Sample Student Essay: My Special Place, Kristen Jacomino



Exemplification: Folklore and the Search for Self


The Readings


Excerpt from Love and Pasta



Fiesta



Excerpt from The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior



Taxidermist's Funeral



The Meaning of the Hunt



Sample Student Essay: My Family Traditions




Process Analysis: Traditional Processes


The Readings


Grandmother's Sunday Dinner



Waking Up the Rake



The Mysteries of My Father's Workshop



Saturday Afternoon, When Chores Are Done



Excerpt from Zitkala-Sa's American Indian Stories


Sample Student Essay: My Family Tradition




Comparison and Contrast: Traditions, A Changing Same


The Readings


Preparations for Seder



On Holidays and How to Make Them Work



All I Want



Black Music in Our Hands



From Growing Up in Cairo



Sample Student Essay: The Essence of Traditions




Controversy/Argument: Millennium Folklore


The Readings


Excerpt from Folklife in Comtemporary Multicultural Society



Once More to the Lake



The Idea of Ancestry



Legacies



Welcome to the Millenium