Record details

• ISBN: 0874749204
• ISBN: 9780874749205
• ISBN: 0874749190
• ISBN: 9780874749199
• Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

Content descriptions

General Note:

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, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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Festivals.
Rites and ceremonies.
Ritual.