The tiny mountain town of Nederland, Colorado hosts an annual festival celebrating the discovery of a frozen Norwegian grandpa on the site of a partially constructed holocaust-proof fortress. The plight of the body came to light only after the 1994 deportation of Grandpa's eccentric grandson, Trygve Bauge, who had founded the local Polar Bear Club and skirted the law for nearly a decade.The town, at first horrified by the discovery of a corpse on private land and then embarrassed by the erratic behavior of its town council, suffered an invasion of worldwide newscasters bent on telling the story. Faced with a situation that could not be denied, Nederland came to embrace and finally to celebrate Grandpa Bredo's discovery.In this non-ficitonal setting, a fictional murder is committed. Another corpse has been discovered in Grandpa's makeshift Tuff Shed mausoleum just days before the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival is set to begin. The chief of police desperately hopes to keep the murder quiet during the festivities to prevent panic and mayhem among the thousands of revelers.The rich history of Nederalnd, whose maxims include the less law the better and do your own thing as long as it doesn't bother anybody else, provides a humorous backdrop for the tale of a town, its quirky, intermitterently law-abiding residents, and one too many frozen dead guys.

The Frozen Dead Guy was once just a regular Norwegian named Bredo Morstoel. When he died in 1983, his family cryogenically preserved his body and placed it in a permanent holding facility in Nederland, Colorado, to wait until technology might allow it to be defrosted and resurrected. His caretaker is Bo "Iceman" Shaffer, who has transported ice to the facility and represented the Frozen Dead Guy for seventeen years and counting. Here he chronicles one of Colorado's strangest and most colorful attractions, one that draws travelers from around the globe to tour the site, attend the annual Frozen Dead Guy Days festival and have a drink.

This engaging text introduces the burgeoning and interdisciplinary field of cultural performance, offering ethnographic approaches to performance as well as looking at the aesthetics of experience and performance theory. Examining cultural performance from anthropological, geographical and corporeal standpoints, this book offers many examples of the ways in which performance art and entertainment utilize cultural methods to deepen and enrich the practice. Featuring case studies from a rich cross-section of academics, chapters explore performances from regions as far flung as Bhutan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA. With cultural performances as varied as Catholic rituals, Maori ceremonies, Monster Truck rallies, musicals, theatre and singing performances, this fascinating text compares performance as art and performance as cultural expression. Core reading for introductory and interdisciplinary modules on performance, this is also an ideal text for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of performance, visual arts, cultural studies or ethnography.

Now available as a Netflix Original Series! Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens. Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high-security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum's director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing from within the fortified institution while someone seems to be slipping out at night. Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic city cop from nearby Toulouse fond of quoting Latin, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there's something disturbing about this crime that he can't ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum, a highly intelligent former prosecutor, accused of killing and raping several women, is found on the horse carcass . . . and a few days later the first human murder takes place. A dark story of madness and revenge seems to be unfolding. Servaz and his colleague, the mysterious Irene Ziegler, must use all their skill to solve the terrifying mystery and best one of the most fiendish and clever opponents they could ever imagine.

When Kate and Tom hear Charles's story about a mythical Frozen Man, they believe it to be just that, and nothing. So when they stumble across a body encased in a block of ice in a forest, while snowbound in North Wales they become afraid for their safety. Against Tom's pleas, he and Kate cart the corpse home with them and hide it in their loft. Thereafter, Charles tells them they must return it after reading tales relating to the From Man mythologies. Yet when they do this they discover the corpse has vanished. Shortly after, very bad things start to befall them. They discover the Frozen Man is an abomination of God’s first creation that must not be tampered with at any cost. The Frozen Man will never die. The Frozen Man taps into Kate and Tom’s worst fears and seeks vengeance for destroying its healing corpse and won’t stop until its deepest, darkest desires are fulfilled…