{"product_id":"fire-in-the-placa-9780812218497","title":"Fire in the Placa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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... Highly recommended.\"-Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 *\u003cbr\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 *\u003cbr\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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405693657431,"sku":"9780812218497","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812218497.jpg?v=1730493302","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fire-in-the-placa-9780812218497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}