LEADER 04259oam 22006494a 450 001 9910780333303321 005 20231018212116.0 010 $a0-292-79863-6 024 7 $a10.7560/705524 035 $a(CKB)111090425016188 035 $a(OCoLC)614978533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10190666 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000118257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145526 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10051373 035 $a(PQKB)11064687 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443083 035 $a(OCoLC)55889837 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443083 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190666 035 $a(DE-B1597)588630 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292798632 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425016188 100 $a20030502d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCarnival and other Christian festivals $efolk theology and folk performance /$fMax Harris 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-292-70552-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-269) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPART ONE Days of Saints and Virgins --$t1. Demons and Dragons (CATALONIA) --$t2. Flowers for Saint Tony (ARAGON) --$t3. El Mas Chiquito de To? Los Santos (PUERTO RICO) --$t4. The Cross-Dressed Virgin on a Tightrope (MEXICO) --$t5. A Polka for the Sun and Santiago (MEXICO) --$tPART TWO Corpus Christi --$t6. Dancing under Friendly Fire (CATALONIA) --$t7. A Confraternity of Jews (CASTILE-LA MANCHA) --$t8. Saint Sebastian and the Blue-eyed Blacks (PERU) --$tPART THREE Carnivals --$t9. A Scattering of Ants (GALICIA) --$t10. The Bandit and the Fat Man (NAVARRE) --$t11. Safe for the Bourgeoisie (BELGIUM) --$t12. Devils and Decorum (TRINIDAD) --$t13. The Sins of the Carnival Virgin (BOLIVIA) --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWith a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval times, remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that they also provide an indispensable vehicle for expressing hopes, fears, and desires that people can articulate in no other way. In this book, Max Harris explores and develops principles for understanding the folk theology underlying patronal saints' day festivals, feasts of Corpus Christi, and Carnivals through a series of vivid, first-hand accounts of these festivities throughout Spain and in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad, Bolivia, and Belgium. Paying close attention to the signs encoded in folk performances, he finds in these festivals a folk theology of social justice that?however obscured by official rhetoric, by distracting theories of archaic origin, or by the performers' own need to mask their resistance to authority?is often in articulate and complex dialogue with the power structures that surround it. This discovery sheds important new light on the meanings of religious festivals celebrated from Belgium to Peru and on the sophisticated theatrical performances they embody. 410 0$aJoe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. 606 $aFasts and feasts 606 $aCarnivals 606 $aFestivals 615 0$aFasts and feasts. 615 0$aCarnivals. 615 0$aFestivals. 676 $a263/.97 700 $aHarris$b Max$f1949-$01491717 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780333303321 996 $aCarnival and other Christian festivals$93840702 997 $aUNINA