sentences:  In Carnival, for example, the practice of masking allows people to be what they are not, and acts as a general social leveller, erasing otherwise tense social hierarchies in a festival that emphasizes play outside the bounds of normal social limits.Yet outside carnival, social tensions of race, class and gender persist, hence requiring the repeated periodic release found in the festival.According to anthropologist Clifford Geertz, political rituals actually construct power; that is, in his analysis of the , he argued that rituals are not an ornament of political power, but that the power of political actors depends upon their ability to create rituals and the cosmic framework within which the social hierarchy headed by the king is perceived as natural and sacred.