| Description |
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Material components in celebration / Richard M. Dorson -- Clay voices: invoking, mocking, celebrating / Barbara A. Babcock -- Ceremonial masks / J.C. Crocker -- Ramlila of Ramnagar and America's oberammergau: two celebratory ritual dramas / Richard Schechner -- 2. Rites of passage: process and paradox / Barbara Myerhoff -- The cut that binds: the Western Ashkenazic Torah binder as nexus between circumcision and Torah / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Canela initiation festivals: "helping hands" through life / William H. Crocker -- 3. The language of festivals: celebrating the economy / Roger D. Abrahams -- The weight of my name is a mountain of blankets: Potlatch ceremonies / Stanley Walens -- Chamula carnival: the "soul" of celebration / Priscilla Rachun Linn -- 4. Religious celebrations / Victor and Edith Turner -- Word, song, and motion: instruments of celebration among Protestant radicals of early nineteenth-century America / Daniel W. Patterson -- Brothers and neighbors: the celebration of community in Penitente villages / Marta Weigle and Thomas R. Lyons -- 5. Sociation and sociability in political celebrations / John J. MacAloon -- The lifeblood of public ritual: fiestas and public exploration projects / Ronald L. Grimes -- "They closed the town up, man!": reflections on the civic and political dimensions of Juneteenth / William H. Wiggins, Jr |
| Analysis |
Festivals |
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Rites and ceremonies |
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Ritual |
| Notes |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Office of Folklife Programs of the Smithsonian Institution at the Renwick Gallery, spring, 1982 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Festivals.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Ritual.
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| Author |
Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter), 1920-1983.
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Renwick Gallery.
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Folklife Programs.
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| LC no. |
81607102 |
| ISBN |
0874749190 (paperback) |
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0874749204 |
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