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Rabelais
and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin, Helene Iswolsky (Translator)
$13.56 Paperback - 484 p., 1988
Take your time with this academic book that rediscoveres the
spirit of the European Mideaval carnival. Its roots point to
ancient Rome and Greek and it was meant to vent the people's
tensions of death fear and social injustice. Fools were crowned
to embody the King and the Pope and other important figures
and they were mocked and beaten and "dethroned"...
Is this tradition dead today? Think twice -- think David Letterman,
Joe Leno and Conan O'Brian and you will be amazed to find astoundig
parallels...
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Celebrations
of Death : The Anthropology of Mortuary Rituals by Peter
Metcalf, Richard
Huntington (Editor), $22.95 Paperback - 236 pages 2nd edition
1992 Cambridge Univ Pr.
This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of death rituals
has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion.
A new introduction reviews anthropological developments since
its publication in 1979.
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