{"product_id":"fire-in-the-placa-catalan-festival-politics-after-franco-paperback-softback-9780812218497","title":"Fire in the Placa; Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812218497","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFire in the Placa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCatalan Festival Politics After Franco\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDorothy Noyes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812218497\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 September 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 14 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.514 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An excellent model of how to approach the analysis of principal communities, in Europe and elsewhere, that are struggling to overcome internal conflicts and contradictions and find acceptable ways of participating in a wider, increasingly globalized world.\" (\u003ci\u003eSouth European Society and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e) \"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. Noyes combines that rarity-well-crafted and accessible prose-with a theoretical architecture that borrows from hermeneutics and the anthropology of power. . . . Highly recommended.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e) \"This book stands above other festival studies in its ability not only to convey information but also, of equal importance, to recreate the emotional texture of events for performers and audience alike. . . . This book is a must.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Folklore\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFire in the PlaÇa\u003c\/i\u003e 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 through drink, sleep deprivation, crowding, constant motion, and the smoke and sparks of close-range firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbolism with intense bodily expression, the Patum has long served as a grassroots equivalent of grand social theory; it moves from a representation of social divisions to a forcible communion among them.\u003cbr\u003e The Patum's dancing effigies-giants, dwarves, Turks and Christian knights, devils and angels, a crowned eagle, and two flaming mule-dragons-have provided local allegories for a long series of political conflicts, but the festival obscures its own messages in smoke and motion to enable a temporary merging of opposites. Activists in the 1970s transition to democracy in Spain took the Patum as a model of how old adversaries might collaborate: it helped to shape the mix of assertiveness in performance and compromise in practice that is typical of contemporary Catalan nationalism. The Patum became a focus of resistance to the Franco regime and drew visitors from all over Catalonia, serving as a rehearsal for the mass protests in Barcelona. Later, it provided the newly autonomous region with a vehicle for integrating immigrants and a vocabulary of belonging, culminating in the Patum-derived devils of the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympic games.\u003cbr\u003e Today, as mines and factories have closed in Berga, the Patum serves as an arena in which provincial Catalans model their relationship to Barcelona, Europe, and the world, and reflects their ambivalence about the choices open to them. Seeking a third way between tourism and terrorism, provincial towns like Berga show us the future of all local communities under globalization.\u003cbr\u003e In collective performances such as the Patum, tensions between cultural and political representation are made visible, and the gap between aspiration and possibility is both bridged and acknowledged. In this exceptionally rich ethnographic study, Dorothy Noyes explores the predicament of provincial communities striving to overcome internal conflict and participate in a wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on Catalonia and the Catalan Language\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. REPRESENTING THE FESTIVAL\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Between Representation and Presence: The Onlooker Problem\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Patum and the Body Politic\u003cbr\u003e PART II. PERSONIFICATION AND INCORPORATION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Gaze and the Touch: Personhood and Belonging in Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Patum Effigies: Attitudes Personified\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Techniques of Incorporation\u003cbr\u003e PART III. UNDER FRANCO: THE OEDIPAL PATUM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Return to the Womb\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Eye of the Father\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The New Generation\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. THE MASS AND THE OUTSIDE: \"THE PATUM WILL BE OURS NO LONGER\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Consumption and the Limits of Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Reproduction and Reduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. The Patum in Spain and the World\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555679465752,"sku":"9780812218497","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fire-in-the-placa-catalan-festival-politics-after-franco-paperback-softback-9780812218497","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}