We Are What We Celebrate: Understanding Holidays and Rituals Book

1	Holidays and rituals : neglected seedbeds of virtue	1
2	Who are we and where do we come from? : rituals, families, and identities	43
3	Just for kids : how holidays became child centered	61
4	This is our family : stepfamilies, rituals, and kinship connections	74
5	Gathering together : remembering memory through ritual	89
6	The festival cycle : Halloween to Easter in the community of Middletown	107
7	Mainstreaming Kwanzaa	120
8	Victorian days : performing community through local festival	131
9	Can you celebrate dissent? : holidays and social protest	151
10	The invention of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday	178
11	Proclaiming Thanksgiving throughout the land : from local to national holiday	194
12	"Our hearts burn with ardent love for two countries" : ethnicity and assimilation	213