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Catalonia's Human Towers

- Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle toward the Heights
Af: Mariann Vaczi Engelsk Paperback

Catalonia's Human Towers

- Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle toward the Heights
Af: Mariann Vaczi Engelsk Paperback
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The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old competitive practice where hundreds of men, women, and children gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of suffering and overcoming, tension and release. Catalonia's Human Towers is an ethnographic look at the thriving castells practice—a symbol of Catalan cultural heritage and identity amid debates around autonomy versus subsummation by the Spanish state. While the main function of building castells is to grow community through a low-cost, intergenerational, and inclusive leisure activity, Mariann Vaczi reveals that this unique sport also provides a social base, image, and vocabulary for the pro-independence movement. Highlighting the intersection of folklore, performance, and self-determination, Catalonia's Human Towers captures the subtle and unconscious processes by which the body becomes politicized and ideology becomes embodied, with all the risks and precarities of collective constructions.
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The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old competitive practice where hundreds of men, women, and children gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of suffering and overcoming, tension and release. Catalonia's Human Towers is an ethnographic look at the thriving castells practice—a symbol of Catalan cultural heritage and identity amid debates around autonomy versus subsummation by the Spanish state. While the main function of building castells is to grow community through a low-cost, intergenerational, and inclusive leisure activity, Mariann Vaczi reveals that this unique sport also provides a social base, image, and vocabulary for the pro-independence movement. Highlighting the intersection of folklore, performance, and self-determination, Catalonia's Human Towers captures the subtle and unconscious processes by which the body becomes politicized and ideology becomes embodied, with all the risks and precarities of collective constructions.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 280
ISBN-13: 9780253067166
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0253067162
Udg. Dato: 5 sep 2023
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Indiana University Press
Oplagsdato: 5 sep 2023
Forfatter(e): Mariann Vaczi
Forfatter(e) Mariann Vaczi


Kategori Folklore, myter og legender


ISBN-13 9780253067166


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 280


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 229mm


Højde 152mm


Udg. Dato 5 sep 2023


Oplagsdato 5 sep 2023


Forlag Indiana University Press

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