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Acadian Traditions on Candlemas Day

Author : Georges Arsenault
Publisher : Acorn Press (CN)
ISBN 13 : 9781894838870
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Acadian Traditions on Candlemas Day written by Georges Arsenault and published by Acorn Press (CN). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-known Acadian folklorist and historian Georges Arsenault will givean illustrated talk on two ancient and popular Acadian winter celebrations.The first is known as Chandeleur (Candlemas) and takes place on February 2.The second, called Mi-Carême, is celebrated a few weeks later in the middleof Lent.Georges Arsenault has researched the origins of these joyful traditions andhow they were observed in Acadian communities in Eastern Canada. Publishedby Acorn Press and translated by Sally Ross, the English titles of his twobooks on these winter festivities are: Acadian Traditions on Candlemas Day:Candles, Pancakes, and House Visits and Acadian Mi-Carême: Masks andMerrymaking.Candlemas Day was at one time an important religious and social festivity.Pancakes were the symbolic food of choice. In many Acadian villages, youngmen went from door-to-door collecting food either for a communal feast or togive to the poor. To celebrate Mid-Lent, people visited each other's homesdressed up in masks and costumes, as they still do in the Chéticamp regionof Cape Breton. In some villages, a scary woman called the Mi-Carêmedistributed candies to good little children. In his presentation, Arsenaultwill trace the evolution of these traditions, highlight modern-daycelebrations, and look at the role they still play in Acadian culture.

Acadian Tales from Bygone Days

Author : Marie-Colombe Robichaud
Publisher : Aeditions de la Piquine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acadian Tales from Bygone Days written by Marie-Colombe Robichaud and published by Aeditions de la Piquine. This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although her primary aim was to write in Acadian French to preserve the language and culture of her ancestors, Marie-Colombe saw the need to write for her English-speaking friends. After all, they too lived in an era when there were no modern conveniences such as electricity and bathrooms. She felt they, like her Acadian friends and relatives, would also enjoy her humorous anecdotes of the past. So she decided to undertake the challenging task of translating her first book.

The French-Canadian Heritage in New England

Author : Gerard J. Brault
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874513592
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis The French-Canadian Heritage in New England by : Gerard J. Brault

Download or read book The French-Canadian Heritage in New England written by Gerard J. Brault and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Gerard J. Brault offers an introduction to Franco- American culture, covering the group's history, ideology, language, and literature; architecture, art, folklore, and music; demography, education, politics, religion, and sociology. " Back cover of book.

Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée

Author : Anna Servaes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626745552
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée written by Anna Servaes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French traditions in America do not live solely in Louisiana. Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée travels to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, to mark the Franco-American traditions still practiced in both these Midwestern towns. This Franco-American cultural identity has continued for over 250 years, surviving language loss, extreme sociopolitical pressures, and the American Midwest's demands for conformity. Ethnic identity presents itself in many forms, including festivals and traditional celebrations, which take on an even more profound and visible role when language loss occurs. On New Year's Eve, the guionneurs, revelers who participate in the celebration, disguise themselves in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century costume and travel throughout their town, singing and wishing New Year's greetings to other members of the community. This celebration, like such others as Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana, Mumming in Ireland and Newfoundland, as well as the Carnaval de Binche, belongs to a category of begging quest festivals that have endured since the Medieval Age. These festivals may have also adapted or evolved from pre-Christian pagan rituals. Anna Servaes produces a historical context for both the development of French American culture as well as La Guiannée in order to understand contemporary identity. She analyzes the celebration, which affirms ethnic community, drawing upon theories by influential anthropologist Victor Turner. In addition, Servaes discusses cultural continuity and its relationship to language, revealing contemporary expressions of Franco-American identity.

Acadian Christmas Traditions

Author : Georges Arsenault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894838269
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Acadian Christmas Traditions written by Georges Arsenault and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on written sources and interviews with Acadians throughout the Maritimes, Acadian Christmas Traditions offers a fascinating look at the evolution of Christmas. This very readable book shows how customs, both spiritual and secular, take hold in families, in villages, and in a culture as a whole. Georges Arsenault, the well-known historian and folklorist, examines all the aspects of the feast of Christmas, from midnight mass to holiday foods. As he chronicles the cultural changes that have taken place over the centuries, he proves that Acadian Christmas today is the result of a wonderful blending of old, new, and borrowed traditions.

Fields of Folklore

Author : Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fields of Folklore written by Roger D. Abrahams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acadian Mi-carême

Author : Georges Arsenault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781894838405
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Acadian Mi-carême written by Georges Arsenault and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich traditions associated with Mi-Car'me or Mid-Lent are firmly anchored in the folkways of Acadian communities. To celebrate Mi-Car'me, people visited each other's homes dressed up in masks and costumes. In the midst of the merrymaking, a mysterious character called the Mi-Car'me gave candies to little children and sometimes even delivered babies. But this strange individual scared many young Acadians because they feared he would take them away if they misbehaved.

Teaching Maritime Studies

Author : Phillip Alfred Buckner
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Maritime Studies written by Phillip Alfred Buckner and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to teaching maritime studies.

Dictionary of Cape Breton English

Author : William J. Davey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615990
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Cape Breton English written by William J. Davey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first regional dictionary devoted to the island s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island s rich vocabulary. "

Acadian Women of Prince Edward Island

Author : Georges Arsenault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927502747
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Acadian Women of Prince Edward Island written by Georges Arsenault and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of their arrival on Isle Saint-Jean in the early 1700s,Acadian women played a major role in the survival of the colony.Over the generations, they have been active in the home and in the community. They have nursed, taught, worked, sung, prayed, and served. Integrated into a well-documented text with numerous photographs, their testimonies provide a history of the Acadie of Prince Edward Island. This book relates how that history was lived by Acadian women and influenced by their action and determination.

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: North America

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : G. K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Cultures: North America written by David Levinson and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic reference source to the cultures of the world. Provides descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or of a representative sample of cultures for regions where full coverage is impossible, as well as accurate descriptions of cultures of the past.

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History

Author : Gerald Hallowell
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Canadian History written by Gerald Hallowell and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over 1700 entries, Canada's leading historians draw on the latest scholarship to describe and analyse events in Canada's political, military, social, economic, cultural and intellectual history.

Forgotten Nova Scotia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772761559
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Nova Scotia written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs showing the legacy of Nova Scotia. The stunning images found in Forgotten Nova Scotia offer a window into our past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. Nova Scotia is in Ingrid Bulmer and Ted Pritchard's blood, and you might say Forgotten Nova Scotia is their love letter to the province. Where others may see only decay and rot in these long-forgotten locations, Bulmer and Pritchard see exquisite beauty. This is the book they were meant to do.

Sweet Treats around the World

Author : Timothy G. Roufs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610692217
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Treats around the World written by Timothy G. Roufs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From apple pie to baklava, cannoli to gulab jamun, sweet treats have universal appeal in countries around the world. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive look at global dessert culture. Few things represent a culture as well as food. Because sweets are universal foods, they are the perfect basis for a comparative study of the intersection of history, geography, social class, religion, politics, and other key aspects of life. With that in mind, this encyclopedia surveys nearly 100 countries, examining their characteristic sweet treats from an anthropological perspective. It offers historical context on what sweets are popular where and why and emphasizes the cross-cultural insights those sweets present. The reference opens with an overview of general trends in desserts and sweet treats. Entries organized by country and region describe cultural attributes of local desserts, how and when sweets are enjoyed, and any ingredients that are iconic. Several popular desserts are discussed within each entry including information on their history, their importance, and regional/cultural variations on preparation. An appendix of recipes provides instructions on how to make many of the dishes, whether for school projects or general entertaining.

Let's Celebrate!

Author : Caroline Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921103387
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Let's Celebrate! written by Caroline Parry and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at some of the ways the people of Canada celebrate their holidays and special days.

A Franco-American Overview

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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A Beginner's Guide to Goodbye

Author : Melanie Mosher
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN 13 : 9781771088466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to Goodbye written by Melanie Mosher and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Laney is struggling with grief, and distracts herself by writing letters to her little sister, who has recently died. As the summer progresses, so do Laney's coping mechanisms. An important book about acknowledging and processing grief in order to overcome it.