SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Gay Pride, Extortion, Lord Of Misrule

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Holidays 13: holidays are collective celebrations, can be rowdy. Lord of misrule- idea that on a holiday everything was upside down. Guys fawkes- parading the guy: would bring in kegs of gun powder into parlement and explode the meetings, annual burning of guy fawkes , reading. Describes 19th century war on these traditional christmas disorders: st paddys parade 1867. Police force trying to control the disorderly festival: halloween vandalism. Acts of vandalism that were expensive and difficult to repair. Slogan trick or treat came from extortionist threats. Either give a treat or they will literally play a trick. After outhouses vanished, people started to teepee: domesticating holidays by inventing traditions, by domesticate he means they are moved from outdoors to indoors, thomas nast"s santa picture. Created picture of santa based off the poem of santa: the new child centered christmas. Opposite of old christmas: halloween had been celebrated in diverse ways. New centered halloween- now done in daylight.