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Victor Turner said that in a great celebration, a community is sending a proboscis out of itself, a long arm reaching up high with an eye on the end of it that turns around and looks at itself, fascinated. This is: “we the people” seeing the people as multiple versions of “each other,” an entity that is entirely beneficial to gaze on and enjoy when the vision is upon us—and it is love, communitas.
The communitas of the crowd: lonely no more.
—Pace, David Riesman
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Turner, E. (2012). Festivals: July 4th, Carnival, and Clown. In: Communitas. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016423_3
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