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Review of Raving by McKenzie Wark

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Kyle Rogers
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Joyful Defiance in Performance

Journal of Festive Studies
This article argues that the figure of the joyful girl in fiesta served as an important site of contest over race, place, and memory in South Texas during the 1950s.
Rosanne Sia
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A Study on Women's Daily Leisure and Customs of Festive Days in Goryeo

, 2007
권순형
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Review of On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Kris Plunkett
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Review of Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640 by Miguel A. Valerio

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Caroline Cunill
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Review of Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Alix Boirot
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“Laborers of Joy”

Journal of Festive Studies
Previous scholarship on the politics of affect in Iran has highlighted the political potential of joy—both within the country and across the diaspora—as a form of resistance against the nation-state’s imposition of sadness and affective mandates ...
Golriz Shayani
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