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Claiming Space

Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards

Utah State University Press

Claiming Space examines the growing tradition of decorating mortarboards at college graduations, offering a performance-centered approach to these material sites of display. 

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Public Performances

Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque

Edited by Jack Santino
Utah State University Press

Public Performances offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—this volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power.

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Pole Raising and Speech Making

Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration

Utah State University Press
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Winter Carnival in a Western Town

Identity, Change and the Good of the Community

Utah State University Press
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