Popular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia

ALESSANDRO TESTA is Associate Professor of Social and Historical Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. MARIANN VACZI is Assistant Professor of Basque Studies and Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. MARIANN VACZI is Assistant Professor of Basque Studies and Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. ALESSANDRO TESTA is Associate Professor of Social and Historical Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague.

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Introduction: Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia - Mariann Vaczi and Alessandro Testa

1: Castells, Myths, and Allegories of Nation Building - Mariann Vaczi

2: The Ritual Making of Central Catalonia 1: National Identity and the Hanging of the Donkey - Alessandro Testa

3: The Ritual Making of Central Catalonia 2: Comparses and the Dynamics of Inclusive Nationalism - Alessandro Testa

4: Reclaiming the Cathar Past: At the Crossroads between Identity Politics and Tourist Economies in Catalonia - Camila Del Mármol

5: The Heritage of the Humiliated: Popular Resistance in Defense of the "Bous" in the Lands of the Ebro - Manuel Delgado, Romina Martínez Algueró, and Sarai Martín López

6: Communities without Festivities? Community Effects, Transformations, and Conflicts after Covid-19 in Catalonia - Xavier Roigé, Mireia Guil, and Lluís Bellas

7: Bon Profit! Food as National Identity in Catalonia - Venetia Johannes

Afterword: Beneath the Nation: Collective Creation and Civic Need - Dorothy Noyes

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