- Fasts and feasts, Collective behavior, Festivals, History
"Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
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Epic, classical in form, earnest and grave.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books, Blackstone Audio Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781429904650
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"Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade", and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker. During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America." - Wikipedia
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