Sacred Clown is a ritual figure within indigenous religious traditions who employs humor, inversion, and taboo-breaking behavior to instruct communities in cultural norms and spiritual values through corrective and transformative performances.
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Ritual Clown
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Publications
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The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose
Raymond Powell, Brian Vickers · The Modern Language Review · 1969 · 90 citations
The ‘King’ and the ‘Clown’ in South Indian Myth and Poetry
Kathryn Hansen · Pacific Affairs · 1987 · 63 citations
Laughing to longevity—the work of elder clowns
Bernie Warren, Peter Spitzer · The Lancet · 2011 · 55 citations · Full text
THE SACRED CLOWNS OF THE PUEBLO AND MAYO‐YAQUI INDIANS
Elsie Clews Parsons · American Anthropologist · 1934 · 45 citations
Essay: Hospital clowns—modern-day court jesters at work
Peter Spitzer · The Lancet · 2006 · 42 citations
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Authors
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- JMJan Mrázek
2 publications · 22 citations
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Institutions
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Bowral & District Hospital
Bowral, Australia
1 h-index
1 publications
42 citations
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
1 h-index
1 publications
63 citations
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
1 h-index
2 publications
90 citations
University of Windsor
Windsor, Canada
1 h-index
1 publications
55 citations
York University
Toronto, Canada
1 h-index
1 publications
13 citations
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Munich, Germany
1 h-index
1 publications
23 citations
RMIT University
Melbourne, Australia
1 publications
10 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 3 publications · 73 citations
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- Man
3 publications · 67 citations
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- The Lancet
2 publications · 97 citations
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- Indonesia
SEAP · 1 publications · 11 citations
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- Sixteenth Century Journal
ESCJ · 1 publications · 24 citations
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