01445nas a2200157   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003100001400044245003900058856014400097300001200241490000600253520101500259022001301274       2017                            d1 aD. Miller00aChristmas: An anthropological lens  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041731490&doi=10.14318%2fhau7.3.027&partnerID=40&md5=1c992bd2b56f6582fcee73d55a2c2527  a409-4420 v73 aWhy does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions that lent themselves to an anthropological perspective. For this reason in 1993 I brought together an edited volume Unwrapping Christmas, which was published by Oxford University Press. For that collection I also obtained permission from Claude Lévi-Strauss to include the first translation of his paper "Le Pere Noël supplicié." Subsequently, on request from Suhrkamp Verlag, who had published several of my books in German, I submitted the following manuscript as part of their launch of a series of more popular academic works in a digital edition. This is the first publication of the manuscript in English.  a20491115