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Fire in the Placa: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco
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Fire in the Plaça is the first fulllength 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 closerange firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbol...
Fire in the Plaça is the first fulllength 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 closerange firecrackers into passionate members of a precarious body politic. Combining richly layered symbol...
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