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socrrulz02's review against another edition
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I first read this book many years ago, shortly after Katrina, for a college course I was taking. Then, as now, I was struck by how tone-deaf the authors were to the actual plight of the people that they claim to be so concerned about.
Ultimately this book reads like a bunch of academics that are concerned that the concepts they devoted their lives to studying might "disappear", rendering their careers meaningless as opposed to people with real concern for what the people who made up that society were suffering. Mardi Gras is a very general framing device for the discussion. I'd be curious to see if they wrote a similar book for the post-COVID world considering COVID's impact on Mardi Gras wound up being much more significant and longer lasting.
Ultimately this book reads like a bunch of academics that are concerned that the concepts they devoted their lives to studying might "disappear", rendering their careers meaningless as opposed to people with real concern for what the people who made up that society were suffering. Mardi Gras is a very general framing device for the discussion. I'd be curious to see if they wrote a similar book for the post-COVID world considering COVID's impact on Mardi Gras wound up being much more significant and longer lasting.
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