Carnival and Other Christian Festivals : : Folk Theology and Folk Performance /

Carnival and Other Christian Festivals : : Folk Theology and Folk Performance / / Max Harris.

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With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to mediev...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Harris, Max,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 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

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