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Festival Cultures
This book brings together interdisciplinary research from the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Art, History and Religious Studies, showing the necessity of a transdisciplinary and diachronic approach to examine the last half-century of modern arts and performance festivals. The volume focuses on new theoretical and methodological approaches for the examination of festivals and festival cultures, both the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and burner culture in Europe. The editors argue that festival cultures are becoming values-inflected global forms of travel, dwelling, festivity, communication, and social organisation that are transforming contemporary cultures and have significant political capital.
People of the Iberian Borderlands
This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish–Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands societies, relying exclusively on the antagonistic topics of subversion and the construction of boundaries. It states that by focusing just on one concept or another there is a restrictive understanding tending to condition the agency of local communities by external narratives. Thus, if traditionally border people were reduced by some scholars to actors of a struggle against a supposedly imposed border; in a more modern perspective, their behaviors have been also framed in bottom-up processes of...
Crosses of Memory and Oblivion
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal wit...
Cultura popular i identitat local en la configuració de les veus subalternes de la pagesia. La tradició a Artà entre 1846 i 1952
Fruit de l’interès en identificar i comprendre els mecanismes de representació de les veus subalternes al llarg la història, el llibre explica la configuració de la veu dels sectors populars de la vila rural d’Artà (Mallorca). Ho fa a través de la tradició dels arguments, cançons de contingut reivindicatiu en els quals es construïa la memòria col·lectiva. De la mateixa manera, l’obra avalua la vigència de la tradició i la seva efectivitat social durant el segle XX.
Chiapas
L’aixecament armat de l’Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) a l’estat mexicà de Chiapas l’any 1994 va significar l’aparició a l’escena pública de la primera guerrilla llatinoamericana després de la guerra freda. En un moment d’eufòria neoliberal, l’EZLN va esdevenir un clar precursor dels moviments antiglobalització. Hi va ajudar l’oportunisme polític i la forta presència del zapatisme a la xarxa Internet, que van fer que el conflicte de Chiapas tingués una gran repercussió mediàtica en els anys immediatament posteriors a l’aixecament. .Els esdeveniments van fer sortir a la llum pública mundial un conflicte que vint anys enrere ja es trobava cla...
