Ritual, Celebration, and Festival: Announcing a new book series

Announcing a new series: Ritual, Celebration, and Festival

Utah State University Press and Jack Santino, series editor,  announce a series of books on ritual, festival, and celebration. The topics include holidays, carnivals, and public or social events such as political demonstrations and death commemorations. The editor and publisher solicit submissions from various disciplines, including anthropology, folklore, history, and  religious studies, and they invite scholars in American studies, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, performance studies, and popular culture. The series will comprise analytical and theoretical works, of 120,000 words or less,  based on ethnographic and/or documentary research and directed at scholars, students, and educated general readers. Interested authors should send a prospectus, including a synopsis, an outline or table of contents, one or two sample chapters (such as an introduction), and a CV to jsantino@bgsu.edu or to Jack Santino, Bowling Green State University, Department of Popular Culture, 105 Popular Culture Building, Bowling Green, OH 43403-1090.