Fire in the Placa by Dorothy Noyes
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
"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 *
"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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812218497 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812218493 |
| Title | Fire in the Placa |
| Author | Dorothy Noyes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2003-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2005 Fellows of the American Folklore Society Book Prize 2021 |
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