The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
Perry, Joseph B.
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Description
Title
The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
Author(s)
Perry, Joseph B.
Issue Date
2001
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Peter Fritzsche
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, European
Language
eng
Abstract
Historians of Germany have long recognized public ritual as tremendously important for the cultural construction of social communities and the dramatic display of power relationships, yet for the most part they have ignored domestic festivity, including Christmas, Germany's most popular holiday. This is the first full-length study that applies methodologies from symbolic anthropology, gender studies, and consumption theory, to a variety of archival, printed, and audiovisual sources, in order to analyze Christmas as a central site identity formation.
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