"Dance when I die! / Kathleen Barlow -- Exaggeration and reversal / David R. Counts and Dorothy A. Counts -- Clowning with food / Mark S. Mosko -- Reflections of an anthropologist / Martha Macintyre -- Horrific humor and festal farce / William E. Mitchell -- When she reigns supreme / Vilsoni Hereniko -- Where the spirits laugh last / Caroline Sinavaiana