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Fire in the plaça : Catalan festival politics after Franco /

"This impressive contribution to the anthropology of Europe is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to the town of Berga, in the foothills of the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain) It also marks the emergence of an important scholar ... Highly recomme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Noyes, Dorothy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Colección:EBL-Schweitzer
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: Representing the festival
  • Between representation and presence: the onlooker problem
  • The Patum and the body politic
  • II: Personification and incorporation
  • The gaze and the touch: personhood and belonging in everyday life
  • The Patum effigies: attitudes personified
  • The techniques of incorporation
  • III: Under Franco: the Oedipal Patum
  • Return to the womb
  • The eye of the father
  • The new generation
  • IV: The mass and the outside: "The Patum will be ours no longer" == Consumption and the limits of metaphor
  • Reproduction and reduction
  • The Patum in Spain and the world.