Nieuw in Nederland : Feesten en rituelen in verandering

New in the Netherlands: Celebrations and rituals in change contribute to the public debate about immigrants, culture and nationalism. The book calls into question the idea that migrant cultures exist in the Netherlands, each with their own traditional festivals and rituals. The underlying assumption that migrants form defined communities with their own cultures has been refuted on the basis of ethnographic research. The book focuses on celebrations and rituals that have arisen in the Netherlands as a result of the arrival of new Dutch people: from a baptism in a Ghanaian Pentecostal church to... Mehr ...