A World Of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, And The Quest For Family Values - Hardcover

Gillis, John

 
9780465054145: A World Of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, And The Quest For Family Values
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465054145 ISBN 13: 9780465054145
Verlag: Basic Books, 1996

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Our whole society may be obsessed with "family values," but, as historian John Gillis points out in this entertaining and eye-opening narrative, most of our images of "home sweet home" are of very recent vintage. In fact, our most cherished family rituals (Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, white weddings, reunions, Father's Day, and Mother's Day) didn't even exist until the Victorian era.
A World of Their Own Making questions our idealized notion of "The Family," a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. As the families we live with become more fragile, the symbolic families we live by become more powerful. Yet it is only by accepting the notion that our rituals, myths, and images must be open to perpetual revision that we can satisfy our human needs and changing circumstances. Our families are worlds of our own making. By using the past to throw light on the present, Gillis empowers us to enjoy and accept responsibility for our own creations.

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John R. Gillis is a professor of history at Rutgers University.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465054145
ISBN 13 
9780465054145
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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