Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.
Contents
I: Representing the festival -- Between representation and presence: the onlooker problem -- The Patum and the body politic -- II: Personification and incorporation -- The gaze and the touch: personhood and belonging in everyday life -- The Patum effigies: attitudes personified -- The techniques of incorporation -- III: Under Franco: the Oedipal Patum -- Return to the womb -- The eye of the father -- The new generation -- IV: The mass and the outside: "The Patum will be ours no longer" == Consumption and the limits of metaphor -- Reproduction and reduction -- The Patum in Spain and the world.
