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Author Ware, Carolyn.

Title Cajun women and Mardi Gras : reading the rules backward / Carolyn E. Ware.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  GT4210.L8 W37 2007    Available  ---
Description xi, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
Contents Introduction : Les Mardi Gras come but once a year -- Just like Cinderella : women's traditional Mardi Gras roles -- Not just the work : Cajun women's masking traditions -- Organizing mayhem : country Mardi Gras associations -- All's fair in love and Mardi Gras : the Tee Mamou women's run -- Letting it fly : the Basile run -- Festive reversals : inversion, intensification, and coding -- Epilogue : women's everyday lives and Mardi Gras.
Subject Carnival -- Louisiana.
Carnival.
Louisiana.
Cajuns -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs.
Cajuns.
Manners and customs.
Women -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs.
Women.
Sex role -- Louisiana.
Sex role.
Louisiana -- Social life and customs.
Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
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