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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