Book
Voices: an anthropologist's dialogue with an Italian-American festival
Bowling Green State University Popular Press ; Cen • Bowling Green, Ohio • Published In 1987 • Pages: xiii, 146
By: Swiderski, Richard M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The St. Peter's fiesta is celebrated annually by the Italian (mostly Sicilian) American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts. This work focuses on the fiesta that took place on June 25-28 in 1970 in which Swiderski acted as a participant observer. The author describes in detail the following events: the initial preparations for the fiesta, various religious aspects (e.g., masses, processions, and the blessing of the fleet), and associated secular activities such as parades, carnivals, sein-boat races, and greasy pole contests. The study concludes with a brief description of changes that have taken place in the fiesta from 1970 to 1985.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Boats
- Athletic sports
- Recreational facilities
- Spectacles
- Sacred objects and places
- Ritual
- Priesthood
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth century - 1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gloucester, Mass., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard M. Swiderski
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141) and indexes
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86072486
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans