"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." - Journal of Ritual Studies

• IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I. Persuasions1. Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body and the Metaphors of Everyman2. The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive CulturePart II. Performances3. Poetry in Motion: Being Moved by Amusement, Mockery, and Mortality in the Asturian Mountains4. Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong5. Lexical Fields: And Some Movements About, Within, and Between Them6. Some Reflections on Looking into Mirrors7. Edification by Puzzlement8. Returning to the Whole9. The Dark at the Bottem of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquire and Some Strategies for Coping with It10. Moving up in the world: Transcendence in Symbolic Anthropology11. Convivial Attitudes: A Northern Spanish Kayak Festival in Its Historical MomentIndex

"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." - Journal of Ritual Studies

• IntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I. Persuasions1. Persuasions and Performances: Of the Beast in Every Body and the Metaphors of Everyman2. The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive CulturePart II. Performances3. Poetry in Motion: Being Moved by Amusement, Mockery, and Mortality in the Asturian Mountains4. Syllogisms of Association: Some Modern Extensions of Asturian Deepsong5. Lexical Fields: And Some Movements About, Within, and Between Them6. Some Reflections on Looking into Mirrors7. Edification by Puzzlement8. Returning to the Whole9. The Dark at the Bottem of the Stairs: The Inchoate in Symbolic Inquire and Some Strategies for Coping with It10. Moving up in the world: Transcendence in Symbolic Anthropology11. Convivial Attitudes: A Northern Spanish Kayak Festival in Its Historical MomentIndex