backward roguery in Duran

[anthony.appleyard at umist.ac.uk]

On 21 Jul 2003, at 10:29, John F. Schwaller wrote:
> Duran's description recalls to mind practices in other cultures which
> involve a temporary reversal (inversion) of the established hierarchy
> between master and servant, serf, or slave. Is this what is going on here?

If you mean: the masters serving the slaves: this happened in
ancient Rome in the Saturnalia.