Bulls, Bullfighting, and Spanish Identities
Carrie B. Douglass
In talking about bulls and bullfighting, observes Douglass, one ends up talking not only about differences in region, class, and politics in Spain but also about that country's ongoing struggle between modernity and tradition. She relates how Spaniards and outsiders see bullfighting as representative of a traditional, irrational Spain contrasted with a more civilized Europe, and she shows how Spaniards' ambivalence about bullfighting is actually a way of expressing ambivalence about the loss of traditional culture in a modern world.
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Year:
1997
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press
Language:
english
Pages:
245
ISBN 10:
0816516510
ISBN 13:
9780816516513
Series:
The Anthropology of Form and Meaning
File:
PDF, 30.54 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997