Liminal rites 466 The argument 467 Public rituals 470 Carnival 474 Post-feudal carnivals 476 Early modern carnivals 480 Stage drama 486 Flow 486 1. Action and awareness are experienced as one 487 2. Attention is centered on a limited stimulus field 487 3. Loss of ego 487 4. The actor finds himself in control of his actions and environment 487 5. Flow usually contains coherent, noncontradictory demands for action and provides clear, unambiguous feedback to a person’s actions 488 6. Finally, flow is what Csikszentmihalyi calls “autotelic,” that is, it seems to need no goals or rewards outside itself 488 Frame 488 Reflection 489 The liminal and the liminoid 491 Postscript 494
