{"product_id":"adventures-in-the-play-ritual-continuum-audun-kjus-9781646426737","title":"Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum","description":"The junctions between play and ritual are many and complex. Play is for fun and joy, but it also demands a total commitment and serious respect for rules. Rituals involve nearly endless varieties of social arrangements and can truly transform people, but they also include improvisation, testing, and pretending. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum\u003c\/i\u003e explores the connectivity between the playful and the ritualized through a fresh theoretical perspective, highlighting the creative messiness and the cultural paradoxes such intersections allow. The chapters span topics such as hen parties, marriage proposals, ash scatterings, extreme sports races, football fans, computer game festivals, celebrations of fandom, migration heritages, and antiracist protests. While the case studies are selected to show a range of diversity with various mergings of play, game, ritual, ceremony, rite, and ritualizing, the introductory and concluding discussions offer sharpened perspectives on common aspects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following these excursions through the play-ritual continuum will be enjoyable for readers interested in how people make sense of their own existence and profitable for scholars in folklore, anthropology, religion, pedagogy, cultural studies, and social sciences and humanities more generally. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Audun Kjus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646426738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646426737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Utah State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Audun Kjus","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640795255039,"sku":"9781646426737","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e35f234f-f0ea-4ad7-b546-f64eb0f87876.jpg?v=1740670539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adventures-in-the-play-ritual-continuum-audun-kjus-9781646426737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}