Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain
Title | Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Farb Hernandez |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781578067503 |
An innovative study of artists balancing tradition with creativity
Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain
Title | Forms of Tradition in Contemporary Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Farb Hernandez |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1578067510 |
An innovative study of artists balancing tradition with creativity
Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain
Title | Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Labanyi |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | National characteristics, Spanish |
ISBN | 9780198159933 |
These interdisciplinary essays focus on how cultural practices help form the Spanish identity, by introducing a range of theoretical debates and exploring specific areas of 20th century Spanish culture.
Rite, Flesh, and Stone
Title | Rite, Flesh, and Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Córdoba |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826502210 |
Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals and social performances of contemporary funeral rites of all kinds; furthermore, they explore how dying flesh and corpses are processed by means of biopolitical technologies and the ethics of (self-)care, and how the vibrant and breathing materiality of the living is transformed into stone and analogous kinds of tangible, empirical presence that engender new cartographies of memory. Each coming from a specific disciplinary perspective, authors in this volume problematize conventional ideas about the place of death in contemporary Western societies and cultures using Spain as a case study. Materials analyzed here—ranging from cinematic and literary fictions, to historical archives and anthropological and ethnographic sources—make explicit a dynamic scenario where actors embody a variety of positions toward death and dying, the political production of mortality, and the commemoration of the dead. Ultimately, the goal of this volume is to chart the complex network in which the disenchantment of death and its reenchantment coexist, and biopolitical control over secularized bodies overlaps with new avatars of the religious and non-theistic desires for memorialization and transcendence.
The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain
Title | The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Cordoba |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2016-11-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137600209 |
This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while the sacred has been linked to the natural, the rural, mythical past origins, and exemption from historical change. This collection problematizes such clear-cut distinctions as overlaps between the modern urban and the sacred in Spanish culture are explored throughout the volume. Placed in the periphery of Europe, Spain has had a complex relationship with the concept of modernity and commonly understood processes of modernization and secularization, thus offering a unique case-study of the interaction between the modern and the sacred in the city.
Folklife and Museums
Title | Folklife and Museums PDF eBook |
Author | C. Kurt Dewhurst |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 2016-12-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1442272937 |
This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture
Title | Santa Fe Hispanic Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Leo Lovato |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826332264 |
A native resident of Santa Fe discusses the impact of tourism on the City Different and the cultural identity of its Hispanic citizens.