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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. Girls's poetry and social critique at Muslim Berber weddings
6. Transgression and tarantella among Catholic women in Calabria
Afterword.
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. Girls's poetry and social critique at Muslim Berber weddings
6. Transgression and tarantella among Catholic women in Calabria
Afterword.