Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum

Audun Kjus is senior curator at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and editor/coeditor of several collected volumes and special issues. He has published on life-cycle celebrations, capital punishment, and the history of folklore research.  Clíona O’Carroll is lecturer in folklore and ethnology at University College Cork and research director with the Cork Folklore Project. She has published on public folklore, material culture, and tradition archives.Simon Poole is associate professor of cultural education at the University of Chester, trustee of the Mythstories museum, and director of the Centre for Research into Education, Creativity, and Arts through Practice. He has published on creativity, pedagogy, and storytelling.Jakob Löfgren is assistant professor in ethnology and folklore at Uppsala University. He has published on workplace conflicts, fan culture, and childhood memories.  Ida Tolgensbakk is senior curator at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History. She has published on migration, internet memes, and the history of the kebab.

“I do not know of any similar publication that takes this combined and intertwined perspective. It will inspire readers to consider their own experiences as worthy of scientific interest and to see familiar everyday routines from new perspectives.”—Alf Arvidsson, Umeå University