American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture

Yousaf, Shabnam

Conference paper 2021

American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture

By Shabnam Yousaf

Published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin

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Traces how Halloween travelled from the Celtic festival of Samhain, carried to America by Irish migrants in the mid-19th century, to the hybrid consumer celebration it is today, drawing on Marvin Harris's cultural materialism to show how its myths are passed on through enculturation and turned into commerce.

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Yousaf, S. (2021). American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin. https://www.dpublication.com/abstract-of-3rd-iacrss/34-552/

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Yousaf, Shabnam. 2021. “American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture.” In Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin. https://www.dpublication.com/abstract-of-3rd-iacrss/34-552/.

MLA (9th edition)

Yousaf, Shabnam. “American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture.” Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin, 2021, https://www.dpublication.com/abstract-of-3rd-iacrss/34-552/.

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@inproceedings{yousaf2021american,
  title = {{American Halloween: Enculturation, Myths and Consumer Culture}},
  author = {Yousaf, Shabnam},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences, Berlin},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://www.dpublication.com/abstract-of-3rd-iacrss/34-552/}
}

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