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Why Catalans insist on their identity. The tragic fate of the
millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully
appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national
voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent
on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan
difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such
irrepressible geniuses as Gaudí, Dalí, Miró and Bigas Luna but,
in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentlessinevitability
of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular
cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the
English-speaking reader with a fuller understanding of the
uniqueness and quality of the culture of Catalonia by providing a
comprehensive portfolio of the creative contribution of the nation
across a broad spectrum of achievement. Though the artistic wealth
of the medieval period is acknowledged appropriately, this study,
with its focus on the modern age, privileges excellence not only in
the more conventional, academic spheres of history, music,
language, literature and the arts but also explores the value of
more basic, popular experience inareas such as sport, cinema,
festivals, cuisine and the city of Barcelona. DOMINIC KEOWN is
Reader in Catalan at the University of Cambridge. CONTRIBUTORS:
Elisenda Barbé, Robert Davidson, Alexander Ibarz, Louise Johnson,
Dominic Keown, Tess Knighton, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Dorothy Noyes,
Montserrat Roser i Puig, Antoni Segura, Miquel Strubell.
Fire in the Placa Catalan Festival Politics After Franco Dorothy
Noyes Winner of the 2005 Fellows of the American Folklore Society
Book Prize "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."--"South European Society and Politics" "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."--"Choice" "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."--"Journal of American Folklore" Selected by "Choice"
magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Fire in the Placa" 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. Dorothy Noyes is Associate
Professor of Folklore and English at The Ohio State University and
author of "Uses of Tradition: Arts of Italian Americans in
Philadelphia." 2003 336 pages 6 x 9 14 illus. ISBN
978-0-8122-3729-0 Cloth $69.95s 45.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-1849-7 Paper
$28.95s 19.00 World Rights Anthropology Short copy: "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"
At once a slogan and a vision for future scholarship,
interdisciplinarity promises to break through barriers to address
today's complex challenges. Yet even high-stakes projects often
falter, undone by poor communication, strong feelings, bureaucratic
frameworks, and contradictory incentives. This new book shows
newcomers and veteran researchers how to craft associations that
will lead to rich mutual learning under inevitably tricky
conditions. Strikingly candid and always grounded, the authors draw
a wealth of profound, practical lessons from an in-depth case study
of a multiyear funded project on cultural property. Examining the
social dynamics of collaboration, they show readers how to
anticipate sources of conflict, nurture trust, and jump-start
thinking across disciplines. Researchers and institutions alike
will learn to plan for each phase of a project life cycle,
capturing insights and shepherding involvement along the way.
Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable
glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the
dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and
the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not
easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although
sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore
studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been
marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and
persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand
theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of
the people whose practices they study. They attend to local
economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for
maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and
wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble
theory" of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on
social life in the modern Western world.
Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable
glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the
dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and
the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not
easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although
sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore
studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been
marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and
persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand
theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of
the people whose practices they study. They attend to local
economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for
maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and
wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the "humble
theory" of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on
social life in the modern Western world.
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