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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2003.
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| 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.


