Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque - Paperbackby Jack Santino (Editor) Public Performances offers a deep and wide ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque this volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power. Contributors consider how public genres of