The American fraternity Psi Rho ritual book
Book - 2018
"The American Fraternity is a photobook that provides an intimate and provocative look at Greek culture on college campuses by combining contemporary photographs with scanned pages from a wax-stained 60 year old ritual manual. This book will shed new light on the peculiarities of the fraternal orders which count seventy-five percent of modern U.S. presidents, senators, justices, and executives among their members. These mysterious campus organizations are filled with arcane oaths and ceremonies and this book attempts to capture within its pages some of this dark power"--Publisher's website, January 23, 2019.
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[United States] :
Daylight Books
2018.
- Language
- English
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- Item Description
- Artist's book: photographs of life and rituals at a fraternity at the University of Berkeley he calls "Phi Rho", with text from a fraternity handbook.
Bound in limp black leather.
Includes facsimile of essay "How to be a man amongst brothers" by Justin F. Romberg on 5 sheets stapled together at the top right-hand corner. Inserted loose. - Physical Description
- 193 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 leaflet (8 pages ; 28 x 21 cm folded to 14 x 21 cm)
- ISBN
- 9781942084556
- U.S. presidents in college fraternal orders
- Ritual of initiation : Union in honor
- The lecture
- The libations : Prayer of the fraternity
- Candle ceremony : The lighting of the candles
- Organization : The fraternity ; Duties of the chapter offices ; Instructions and customs of chapters
- Appendix : Men of distinction : Vice Presidents of the United States ; Justices of the United States Supreme Court ; Members of the President's Cabinet and their fraternities ; Chief executives or founders of distinguished corporations ; 114th Congress : Senators; Representatives ; Bishops of the Church
- Essays : Girlplay / Cynthia Robinson
- Afterword / Nicholas L. Syrett.
