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Fire in the Placa : Catalan Festival Politics after Franco.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202991
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fire in the PlacaDDC classification:
  • 394.26/0946/72
LOC classification:
  • GT4995.C6 -- N68 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON CATALONIA AND THE CATALAN LANGUAGE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. REPRESENTING THE FESTIVAL -- 1. BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND PRESENCE: THE ONLOOKER PROBLEM -- 2. THE PATUM AND THE BODY POLITIC -- PART II. PERSONIFICATION AND INCORPORATION -- 3. THE GAZE AND THE TOUCH: PERSONHOOD AND BELONGING IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- 4. THE PATUM EFFIGIES: ATTITUDES PERSONIFIED -- 5. THE TECHNIQUES OF INCORPORATION -- PART III. UNDER FRANCO: THE OEDIPAL PATUM -- 6. RETURN TO THE WOMB -- 7. THE EYE OF THE FATHER -- 8. THE NEW GENERATION -- PART IV. THE MASS AND THE OUTSIDE: "THE PATUM WILL BE OURS NO LONGER -- 9. CONSUMPTION AND THE LIMITS OF METAPHOR -- 10. REPRODUCTION AND REDUCTION -- 11. THE PATUM IN SPAIN AND THE WORLD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Summary: "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 recommended."--Choice.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON CATALONIA AND THE CATALAN LANGUAGE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. REPRESENTING THE FESTIVAL -- 1. BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND PRESENCE: THE ONLOOKER PROBLEM -- 2. THE PATUM AND THE BODY POLITIC -- PART II. PERSONIFICATION AND INCORPORATION -- 3. THE GAZE AND THE TOUCH: PERSONHOOD AND BELONGING IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- 4. THE PATUM EFFIGIES: ATTITUDES PERSONIFIED -- 5. THE TECHNIQUES OF INCORPORATION -- PART III. UNDER FRANCO: THE OEDIPAL PATUM -- 6. RETURN TO THE WOMB -- 7. THE EYE OF THE FATHER -- 8. THE NEW GENERATION -- PART IV. THE MASS AND THE OUTSIDE: "THE PATUM WILL BE OURS NO LONGER -- 9. CONSUMPTION AND THE LIMITS OF METAPHOR -- 10. REPRODUCTION AND REDUCTION -- 11. THE PATUM IN SPAIN AND THE WORLD -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

"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 recommended."--Choice.

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