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Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum

Kjus, Audun
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Young, Sheila M.
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Jansson, Hanna
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Lindelöf, Karin S.
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Woube, Annie
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Herd, Katarzyna
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Eggel, Ruth Dorothea
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Löfgren, Jakob
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Gradén, Lizette
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Pisera, Sallie Anna
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Kjus, Audun
Löfgren, Jakob
O’Carroll, Cliona
Poole, Simon
Tolgensbakk, Ida
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Norwegian Museum of Cultural History; Uppsala University; University College Cork; University of Chester
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2025-01-28
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Abstract
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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Kjus, A., Löfgren, J., O'Carroll, C., Poole, S., & Tolgensbakk, I. (Eds.). (2025). Adventures in the Play-ritual Continuum. University Press of Colorado.
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University Press of Colorado
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http://hdl.handle.net/10034/629276
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9781646426751
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9781646426737
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