Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance
Autor Max Harrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2003
In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout Spain and in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad, Bolivia, and Belgium. Paying close attention to the signs encoded in folk performances, he finds in these festivals a folk theology of social justice that—however obscured by official rhetoric, by distracting theories of archaic origin, or by the performers' own need to mask their resistance to authority—is often in articulate and complex dialogue with the power structures that surround it. This discovery sheds important new light on the meanings of religious festivals celebrated from Belgium to Peru and on the sophisticated theatrical performances they embody.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292701915
ISBN-10: 0292701918
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 12 colour, 65 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292701918
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 12 colour, 65 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Max Harris is Executive Director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: Days of Saints and Virgins
- 1. Demons and Dragons (Catalonia)
- 2. Flowers for Saint Tony (Aragon)
- 3. El Mas Chiquito de To' Los Santos (Puerto Rico)
- 4. The Cross-Dressed Virgin on a Tightrope (Mexico)
- 5. A Polka for the Sun and Santiago (Mexico)
- Part Two: Corpus Christi
- 6. Dancing under Friendly Fire (Catalonia)
- 7. A Confraternity of Jews (Castile-La Mancha)
- 8. Saint Sebastian and the Blue-eyed Blacks (Peru)
- Part Three: Carnivals
- 9. A Scattering of Ants (Galicia)
- 10. The Bandit and the Fat Man (Navarre)
- 11. Safe for the Bourgeoisie (Belgium)
- 12. Devils and Decorum (Trinidad)
- 13. The Sins of the Carnival Virgin (Bolivia)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints’ day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout