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Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum
Utah State University Press
The junctions between play and ritual are many and complex. Play is for fun and joy, but it also demands a total commitment and serious respect for rules. Rituals involve nearly endless varieties of social arrangements and can truly transform people, but they also include improvisation, testing, and pretending.
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Edited by Jack Santino
Utah State University Press
Public Performances offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—this volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power.
Claiming Space
Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards
By Sheila Bock
Utah State University Press
Claiming Space examines the growing tradition of decorating mortarboards at college graduations, offering a performance-centered approach to these material sites of display.
Pole Raising and Speech Making
Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration
Utah State University Press
Winter Carnival in a Western Town
Identity, Change and the Good of the Community
By Lisa Gabbert
Utah State University Press
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