Fire in the plaça
Subtitle: Catalan festival politics after Franco
By: Dorothy Noyes.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Corpus Christi Festival -- Spain -- Berga; Festivals -- Political aspects -- Spain -- Berga; Berga (Spain) -- Social life and customs; Spain -- Social conditions -- 1975-; Spain -- Politics and government -- 1975-
Other titles: Catalan festival politics after Franco
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Representing the festival; title: Between representation and presence : the onlooker problem; title: The Patum and the body politic; title: II: Personification and incorporation; title: The gaze and the touch : personhood and belonging in everyday life; title: The Patum effigies : attitudes personified; title: The techniques of incorporation; title: III: Under Franco : the Oedipal Patum; title: Return to the womb; title: The eye of the father; title: The new generation; title: IV: The mass and the outside : "The Patum will be ours no longer"; title: Consumption and the limits of metaphor; title: Reproduction and reduction; title: The Patum in Spain and the world.