Round 8: Tossup 14
A 1974 book describes how “social” situations named for this field begin with a rule-breaking “breach,” followed by a crisis and possible “irreparable schism.” The journal PAJ focuses on cross-disciplinary “studies” named for this field and was co-founded by Richard Schechner. After working on liminality, Victor Turner studied the symbolic action of this discipline in books like From Ritual to [it]. Assessment of a polity as a (*) “hydraulic bureaucracy” is rejected in favor of a model named for this field in an ethnography of the “Negara” political system on Bali. A sociologist drew on this field to describe practices of “impression management” in “front” and “back” places. For 10 points, Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life borrows terms from what field such as “cues”? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Avg. Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 111.00 |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 25% | 0% | 84.75 |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 79.33 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.20 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 112.25 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 75.33 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 99.75 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 100% | 17% | 17% | 105.83 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 121.80 |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 108.00 |