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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
Abstract
dc:descriptionHistorians 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Perry, Joseph B.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Peter Fritzsche
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3017181
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84620