Mardi Gras: Carnival License and Controlled Transgression

A historical study analyzes Mardi Gras as a moment of sanctioned and ritualized social transgression.

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This traditional celebration temporarily suspends social order before the Christian Lenten season.

Carnival reveals social structures through its staging of freedom.

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