Dorothy Noyes is Associate Professor of Folklore and English at The Ohio State University and author of Uses of Tradition: Arts of Italian Americans in Philadelphia.

• A Note on Catalonia and the Catalan LanguageIntroductionPART I. REPRESENTING THE FESTIVALChapter 1. Between Representation and Presence: The Onlooker ProblemChapter 2. The Patum and the Body PoliticPART II. PERSONIFICATION AND INCORPORATIONChapter 3. The Gaze and the Touch: Personhood and Belonging in Everyday LifeChapter 4. The Patum Effigies: Attitudes PersonifiedChapter 5. The Techniques of IncorporationPART III. UNDER FRANCO: THE OEDIPAL PATUMChapter 6. Return to the WombChapter 7. The Eye of the FatherChapter 8. The New GenerationPART IV. THE MASS AND THE OUTSIDE: "THE PATUM WILL BE OURS NO LONGER"Chapter 9. Consumption and the Limits of MetaphorChapter 10. Reproduction and ReductionChapter 11. The Patum in Spain and the WorldNotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

"An excellent model of how to approach the analysis of principal communities, in Europe and elsewhere, that are struggling to overcome internal conflicts and contradictions and find acceptable ways of participating in a wider, increasingly globalized world." (South European Society and Politics) "This impressive contribution to the anthropology of Europe is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to the town of Berga, in the foothills of the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain). It also marks the emergence of an important scholar. Noyes combines that rarity-well-crafted and accessible prose-with a theoretical architecture that borrows from hermeneutics and the anthropology of power. . . . Highly recommended." (Choice) "This book stands above other festival studies in its ability not only to convey information but also, of equal importance, to recreate the emotional texture of events for performers and audience alike. . . . This book is a must." (Journal of American Folklore)

Dorothy Noyes is Associate Professor of Folklore and English at The Ohio State University and author of Uses of Tradition: Arts of Italian Americans in Philadelphia.

• A Note on Catalonia and the Catalan LanguageIntroductionPART I. REPRESENTING THE FESTIVALChapter 1. Between Representation and Presence: The Onlooker ProblemChapter 2. The Patum and the Body PoliticPART II. PERSONIFICATION AND INCORPORATIONChapter 3. The Gaze and the Touch: Personhood and Belonging in Everyday LifeChapter 4. The Patum Effigies: Attitudes PersonifiedChapter 5. The Techniques of IncorporationPART III. UNDER FRANCO: THE OEDIPAL PATUMChapter 6. Return to the WombChapter 7. The Eye of the FatherChapter 8. The New GenerationPART IV. THE MASS AND THE OUTSIDE: "THE PATUM WILL BE OURS NO LONGER"Chapter 9. Consumption and the Limits of MetaphorChapter 10. Reproduction and ReductionChapter 11. The Patum in Spain and the WorldNotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

"An excellent model of how to approach the analysis of principal communities, in Europe and elsewhere, that are struggling to overcome internal conflicts and contradictions and find acceptable ways of participating in a wider, increasingly globalized world." (South European Society and Politics) "This impressive contribution to the anthropology of Europe is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to the town of Berga, in the foothills of the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain). It also marks the emergence of an important scholar. Noyes combines that rarity-well-crafted and accessible prose-with a theoretical architecture that borrows from hermeneutics and the anthropology of power. . . . Highly recommended." (Choice) "This book stands above other festival studies in its ability not only to convey information but also, of equal importance, to recreate the emotional texture of events for performers and audience alike. . . . This book is a must." (Journal of American Folklore)

Dorothy Noyes is Associate Professor of Folklore and English at The Ohio State University and author of Uses of Tradition: Arts of Italian Americans in Philadelphia.

• A Note on Catalonia and the Catalan LanguageIntroductionPART I. REPRESENTING THE FESTIVALChapter 1. Between Representation and Presence: The Onlooker ProblemChapter 2. The Patum and the Body PoliticPART II. PERSONIFICATION AND INCORPORATIONChapter 3. The Gaze and the Touch: Personhood and Belonging in Everyday LifeChapter 4. The Patum Effigies: Attitudes PersonifiedChapter 5. The Techniques of IncorporationPART III. UNDER FRANCO: THE OEDIPAL PATUMChapter 6. Return to the WombChapter 7. The Eye of the FatherChapter 8. The New GenerationPART IV. THE MASS AND THE OUTSIDE: "THE PATUM WILL BE OURS NO LONGER"Chapter 9. Consumption and the Limits of MetaphorChapter 10. Reproduction and ReductionChapter 11. The Patum in Spain and the WorldNotesReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

"An excellent model of how to approach the analysis of principal communities, in Europe and elsewhere, that are struggling to overcome internal conflicts and contradictions and find acceptable ways of participating in a wider, increasingly globalized world." (South European Society and Politics) "This impressive contribution to the anthropology of Europe is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Christi fire festival unique to the town of Berga, in the foothills of the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain). It also marks the emergence of an important scholar. Noyes combines that rarity-well-crafted and accessible prose-with a theoretical architecture that borrows from hermeneutics and the anthropology of power. . . . Highly recommended." (Choice) "This book stands above other festival studies in its ability not only to convey information but also, of equal importance, to recreate the emotional texture of events for performers and audience alike. . . . This book is a must." (Journal of American Folklore)