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From behind the mask : essays on south Louisiana Mardi Gras runs / Barry Jean Ancelet.
Van Pelt Library GT4210.L8 A53 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ancelet, Barry Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carnival--Louisiana.
- Carnival.
- Carnival--Louisiana--History.
- Cajuns--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
- Cajuns.
- Cajuns--Louisiana--History.
- Ethnology--Louisiana.
- Ethnology.
- Louisiana--Social life and customs.
- Louisiana.
- Iberia Parish (La.)--Social life and customs.
- Iberia Parish (La.).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lafayette, LA : University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Part I. Understanding Mardi Gras. Singing outlaws and beggars with whips: Variety in the Louisiana French Mardi Gras
- Playing the Other: Ritual reversal in the South Louisiana country Mardi Gras
- The apprenticeship of misrule: Making sense of making nonsense
- Begging in the ballpark, blogging for a chicken, and running in the hall: Mardi Gras in evolving communities
- Exporting Mardi Gras
- Part II. Deep play and the impact on society. We love our Mardi Gras: The social implications of the Mardi Gras and how we read it
- Falling apart to stay together: Deep play in the Grand Marais Mardi Gras
- The play is deep and wide: Strategies for survival in the Grand Marais Mardi Gras
- Hard work and hard play in the Grand Marais Mardi Gras
- Serious Laughter: Death and the Mardi Gras
- Part III. Race and Mardi Gras. Le Carnaval de Basile: The high stakes of deep play
- No more blackface: Tradition and change in the Grand Marais Mardi Gras
- Part IV. Mardi Gras and the folklorist
- On the edge of chaos: The relationship between the Mardi Gras and its observers
- The Mamou Mardi Gras from behind the mask: Problems and opportunities of the ethnic folklorist working in his own community
- "Swollen with meaning": The Grand Marais Mardi Gras from the inside out
- Epilogue: Home Game: Reviving the Ossun Mardi Gras Run
- Appendix: The songs of south Louisiana Mardi Gras.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231).
- ISBN:
- 1946160911
- 9781946160911
- OCLC:
- 1362756290
- Publisher Number:
- 99993766597
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