Acknowledgments

1. Festivals, Rites, and Presents

2. Family, Feast, and Football

3. Holiday Blues and Pfeffernusse

4. Easter Breads and Bunnies

5. Festival of Freedom

6. Eating and Explosives

7. Cakes and Candles

8. Rites of Passage

9. Please Omit Flowers

10. The Bride Once Wore Black

11. Rituals, Families, and Identities

Notes

Index

Author photo: copyright Pauline Neild, 1997

Elizabeth Pleck is Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the author of Domestic Tyranny: The Making of Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present.