Graeber / Wengrow 116: "In carnival, women might rule over men, children be put in charge of government, servants could demand work from their mastors, ancestors could return from the dead, 'carnival kings' could be crowned and then dethroned, giant monuments like wicker dragons built and set on fire, or all formal ranks might even disintegrate into one or other form of Bacchanalian chaos"
Footnote: "On the 'carnivalesque' the classic text is Bakhtini's Rabelais and His World (1940)