TY  - BOOK
AU  - Don Handelman
AU  - Don Handelman
TI  - Models and mirrors :  : towards an anthropology of public events
SN  - 9781571811653
U1  - 306.4 HAN 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  -  : Berghahn Books
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Culture
KW  - Holiday Celebration
N1  - 	Premises and prepossessions --
Models and mirrors --
Precariousness in play --
The donkey game --
Banana time --
The Palio of Siena --
Christmas mimming in Newfoundland --
Holiday celebrations in Israeli kindergartens --
State ceremonies of Israel- Remembrance Day and Independence Day --
Symbolic types- clowns
N2  - Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions
ER  -