Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance

by Max Harris

Book Overview

With 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292701918
• ISBN13: 9780292701915
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"