09/19/2024
this post is for the clowns.... clicking on links lead to this abstract on Clowns: International Clowns and Clown Societies—The Role of the Clown Across Time and Space
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39221-4_2
And if clown is your thing, the bibliography-references listed here is immensely rich, check it out!
I am intrigued with a dissertation paper from 1991 by AR Freese titled: Send in the clowns: an ethnohistorical analysis of the sacred clowns' role in cultural boundary maintenance among the Pueblo Indians" which discusses amongst other things:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTION .................................... 1
CHAPTER
1. Between Quiescence and Revolt:
History at the Boundaries of the
Pueblo World ........................... 22
2. Closing the Road: Pueblo Responses
to Spanish Incursions in the Sixteenth
Century ................................ 56
3. Friar Clowns and Dancing Devils:
The Hidden Transcript in Seventeenth-
Century New Mexico .................... 96
4. The Hidden Transcript in Public View:
The Pueblo Revolt and its Aftermath.... 158
5. Refining the Hidden Transcript:
Defining Sacred Space in the Pueblo
World .......................... 177
6. The Ceremonial Role of Clowns in
Pueblo Society ......................... 216
CONCLUSION ...................................... 26
In this chapter we begin by tracing the many aspects of the fool in the English tradition. From the ‘natural fool’ of the medieval church, through the social fool at festival and fairs, to the circus clown with which many of us are familiar. We then set...
