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
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index
Notes
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