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Catalonia's Human Towers - Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle toward the Heights (Hardcover)
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Catalonia's Human Towers - Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle toward the Heights (Hardcover)
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The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old
competitive practice where hundreds of men, women, and children
gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a
feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of
suffering and overcoming, tension and release. Catalonia's Human
Towers is an ethnographic look at the thriving castells
practice—a symbol of Catalan cultural heritage and identity amid
debates around autonomy versus subsummation by the Spanish state.
While the main function of building castells is to grow community
through a low-cost, intergenerational, and inclusive leisure
activity, Mariann Vaczi reveals that this unique sport also
provides a social base, image, and vocabulary for the
pro-independence movement. Highlighting the intersection of
folklore, performance, and self-determination, Catalonia's Human
Towers captures the subtle and unconscious processes by which the
body becomes politicized and ideology becomes embodied, with all
the risks and precarities of collective constructions.
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