"play farming"
Graeber and Wengrow's term for "loose and flexible methods of cultivation which leave people free to pursue any number of other seasonal activities"
"play kingdoms"
"seasonal gatherings [involving] the performance of something that looks to us a bit like kingship [but] only during certain periods of the year"
"there were months full of building projects, pageants, festivals, census-taking, oaths of allegiance, trials and spectacular executions; and other times when a king's subjects (and sometimes even the king himself) scattered to attend to [other] needs" (for instance, "planting, harvesting and pasturage")