Fire in the Placa : : Catalan Festival Politics After Franco / / Dorothy Noyes.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleFire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to Berga, Catalonia, Spain, celebrated annually since the seventeenth century. Participants in the festival are transformed thro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 14 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Acknowledgments