Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum
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Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum

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Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum

About this book

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.
 
Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum explores the connectivity between the playful and the ritualized through a fresh theoretical perspective, highlighting the creative messiness and the cultural paradoxes such intersections allow. The chapters span topics such as hen parties, marriage proposals, ash scatterings, extreme sports races, football fans, computer game festivals, celebrations of fandom, migration heritages, and antiracist protests. While the case studies are selected to show a range of diversity with various mergings of play, game, ritual, ceremony, rite, and ritualizing, the introductory and concluding discussions offer sharpened perspectives on common aspects.
 
Following these excursions through the play-ritual continuum will be enjoyable for readers interested in how people make sense of their own existence and profitable for scholars in folklore, anthropology, religion, pedagogy, cultural studies, and social sciences and humanities more generally.
 

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Yes, you can access Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum by Audun Kjus,Jakob Löfgren,Clíona O'Carroll,Simon Poole,Ida Tolgensbakk in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Folklore & Mythology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. 1. Imagining the Play-Ritual Continuum
  7. 2. Naughty Games: The Profanation of the Sacred at Scottish Hen Parties
  8. 3. The Big Question: Unwrapping the Modern Performative Marriage Proposal
  9. 4. Inventive Ash Scatterings in the Swedish Archipelago
  10. 5. The Play and Ritual of Extreme Sports Races: Exploring the Cultural Logic of Endurance Events
  11. 6. Rules of Play, Playing with the Rules: Challenge and Cooperation between Security Forces and Football Fans in Sweden
  12. 7. Playing in the In-Between: Practices of Play, Ritual, and Beyond at Computer Game Festivals
  13. 8. To Leave a Receipt and Bang the Gavel: Play and Ceremony in Celebrations of Fandom
  14. 9. Lutfisk—Nothing to Sniff At: Migration Heritages and Ritualized Play in Scandinavian America
  15. 10. Playing for Keeps: Tradition, Transformation, and Anti-Racist Protest in an American Capital
  16. 11. A Frame within a Frame within a Frame within . . . : Concluding Essay
  17. Index
  18. List of Contributors