Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Women Performers and World Religions: On Ritual, Local Practice, Universals, and Comparison
2. Wedding Lamentation: Singing Sorrow, Embodying the Future
3. Demeter’s Lamentation and Baubo’s Mockery: Responses to the Marriage (Abduction) of Persephone
4. Revelry and Resistance: Prenuptial Performances of Mockery and Ridicule
5. Girl’s Poetry and Social Critique at Muslim Berber Weddings
6. Transgression and Tarantella among Catholic Women in Calabria
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index