Bøger af Barry Jean Ancelet

"A series of sixteen essays that discuss and analyze the rural Mardi Gras run celebrations of south Louisiana. In the first half of this book the reader gets an overview of Mardi Gras over the years and across the countryside of southwest Louisiana, where each community enacts the festival in its own unique way. Collectively, these essays present the rules of a seemingly lawless game, an indispensable overview of an enormously intricate complex of traditional behavior. In the second half, Barry shares accounts of his personal experiences as a participant observing and running Mardi Gras"--

This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today-cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.