Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Pamela R. Frese

Observing Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological Fieldwork by Madeline Duntley

American Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat of Alaska by Edith Turner

Sauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as Performances of Identity by John M. Coggeshall

Individual and Community in a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in the American South by Gwen Kennedy Neville

The Ritual of Testifying in the Black Church by Jon Michael Spencer

Powwows, Parades, and Social Drama Among the Waccamaw Sioux by Patricia B. Lerch

Anglo-American Mortuary Complex and Cultural Heritage by Pamela R. Frese

Ritual Cycles of Exchange: The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S. Borderlands by Carlos G. Velez Ibanez

Ethnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi-Mexicans and Others by Karen Leonard

Fishing and Drinking in Kodiak by Rachel Mason

Coronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the Individual by Michaele Thurgood Haynes

The Ritual Cycle of the American Monarch by J.R. McLeod

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