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"Festivals and carnival" is a category that gathers books exploring public celebrations, seasonal rituals, parades and carnivalesque events from around the world and across history. It includes nonfiction—travel guides, cultural histories, ethnographies, photography books and cookbooks—that examine the music, costumes, food, religious and social meanings of festivals, as well as fiction and memoirs that use festivals as vivid settings or catalysts for character change. Common themes are community and identity, ritual and tradition, spectacle and performance, the tensions between sacred meanings and commercialization, and the sensory richness of music, color and food; works may be academic, popular, lyrical or playful. This category suits readers interested in culture, travel, anthropology, celebration, and the human stories that unfold in moments of collective revelry.

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