We will announce when his article has been published. Should be very interesting.

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Barthes, Roland. “Toys.”  Encounters: Essays for Exploration and Inquiry. New York: McGraw Hill 2000.
 
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Bousiac, Paul. Circus and Culture: A Semiotic Approach.
 
Carrier, James. “The Rituals of Christmas Giving.” In Unwrapping Christmas. ed. Daniel Miller. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993. pp. 55-74.
 
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Cross Gary. Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1977.
 
Culhane, John, The American Circus: An Illustrated History. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1990.

Daniel, Noe. The Circus: 1870 to 1950.

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Douglas, Mary and Baron Isherwood. The World of Goods: Towards and Anthropology of Consumption. New York: W.W. Norton. 1979
 
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Garvey, Catherine. Play. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1990.
 
Golby and Purdue. “The Victorians Refurbishing of Christmas.”In The Making of the Modern Christmas. Athens: University of Georgia Press. pp. 40-80.

Hammarstrom, David Lewis. Fall of the Big top: The Vanishing American Circus.
 
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Illick, Joseph E. American Childhoods. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002.
 
Jenkins, Henry “Complete Freedom of Movement: Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces.” In From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Ed. Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1998.
 
Kline. Stephen. Out of the Garden: Toys, TV, and Children’s Culture in the Age of Marketing. New York: Verso. 1993.

May, Earl Chapin. The Circus: From Rome to Ringling. New York: Dover Publicatins 1932.
 
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Verney, Peter. Here Comes the Circus. New York: Padddington Press Ltd. 1978.
 
Waits, William. “Something for the Kid: Gifts from Parents to Children.” In The Modern Christmas in America: A Cultural History of Gift Giving. New York: New York University Press: pp. 120-150.
 
West, Mark Irwin. “A Spectrum of Spectators: Circus Audiences in Nineteenth-Century America.” Journal of Social History, Vol. 15. No. 2 (Winter, 1981). Pp. 265-270.