{"product_id":"fire-in-the-placa-catalan-festival-politics-after-franco-paperback","title":"Fire in the Placa: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Noyes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFire 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.\"--\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 Selected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title \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. \u003cb\u003eDorothy Noyes\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Folklore and English at The Ohio State University and author of \u003ci\u003eUses of Tradition: Arts of Italian Americans in Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130699026567,"sku":"9780812218497","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/622bedd17df94b9a75c2221e092591e2.webp?v=1732613030","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/fire-in-the-placa-catalan-festival-politics-after-franco-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}