Bibliography: Cajun Mardi Gras

Alexander, Susan M. “Review of Mardi Gras- Made in China.” Teaching Sociology 34, no. 2 (April 2006): 203-205.  

Gaudet, Marcia. “”Mardi Gras, Chic-a-la-Pie:” Reasserting Creole Identity Through Festive Play.” The Journal of American Folklore 114, no. 452 (Spring 2001): 154-174.  

Lindahl, Carl. “The Presence of the Past in the Cajun Country Mardi Gras.” Journal of Folklore Research 33, no. 2 (May 1996): 125-153.  

Lindahl, Carl, and Carolyn Ware. Cajun Mardi Gras Masks. University Press of Mississippi, 1997.  

McLain, James. The Economics of Mardi Gras- 1987. New Orleans, LA: Carnival Krewe Civic Foundation, Inc, 1998.  

Rambuss, Richard. “Spenser and Milton at Mardi Gras: English Literature, American Cultural Capital, and the Reformation of New Orleans Carnival.” boundary 2 27, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 45-72.  

Sawin, Patricia E. “Transparent Masks: The Ideology and Practice of Disguise in Contemporary Cajun Mardi Gras.” The Journal of American Folklore 114, no. 452 (Spring 2001): 175-203.  

Sexton, Rocky L. “Cajun Mardi Gras: Cultural Objectification and Symbolic Appropriation in a French Tradition.” Ethnology 38, no. 4 (Autumn 1999): 297-313.  

———. “Ritualized Inebriation, Violence, and Social Control in Cajun Mardi Gras.” Anthropological Quarterly 74, no. 1 (January 2001): 28-38.  

Sexton, Rocky L., and Harry Oster. “Une ‘Tite Poule Grasse ou la Fille Aînée [A Little Fat Chicken or the Eldest Daughter]: A Comparative Analysis of Cajun and Creole Mardi Gras Songs.” The Journal of American Folklore 114, no. 452 (Spring 2001): 204-224.  

Spitzer, Nicholas. “Zydeco and Mardi Gras : creole identity and performance genres in rural French Louisiana,” 1991.  

Ware, Carolyn E. “Anything to Act Crazy: Cajun Women and Mardi Gras Disguise.” The Journal of American Folklore 114, no. 452 (Spring 2001): 225-247.  

———. Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rules Backward. 1st ed. University of Illinois Press, 2006.