Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

301 Pages·2003·9 MB·English

by  Max Harris

Carnival
andOtherChristianFestivals
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JoeR.andTeresaLozanoLongSeriesin
LatinAmericanandLatinoArtandCulture
Carnival
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FOLK THEOLOGY AND FOLK PERFORMANCE
by Max Harris
university of texas press, austin
Portionsofthisbookhavebeenabbreviatedorotherwiseadaptedfrompreviouslypub-
lishedarticles:
‘‘DaysofSaintsandVirgins:TheHiddenTheologyofPatronalSaintsDayFestivals,’’
inEuropeanMedievalDrama1999,ed.SydneyHigginsandFiorellaPaino(Camerino:
UniversitàdegliStudidiCamerino,2000)
‘‘MaskingtheSite:TheFiestasdeSantiagoApóstolinLoíza,PuertoRico,’’Journalof
AmericanFolklore114,no.453(2001)
‘‘CorpusChristiinCusco(Peru):SaintSebastianandtheBlue-EyedBlacks,’’TheDrama
Review47,no.1(2003)
‘‘CarnivalinGalicia:ScatteredAnts,WhippedBacks,andHammeredPlowshares,’’The
DramaReview44,no.3(2000)
‘‘TheImpotenceofDragons:PlayingDevilintheTrinidadCarnival,’’TheDramaRe-
view42,no.3(1998)
‘‘ABolivianMoralityPlay:SaintMichaelandtheSinsoftheCarnivalVirgin,’’Euro-
peanMedievalDrama5(2001)
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Contents
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acknowledgments xiii
part one:DaysofSaintsandVirgins
1.DemonsandDragons(catalonia) 3
2.FlowersforSaintTony(aragon) 21
3.ElMasChiquitodeTo’LosSantos(puertorico) 33
4.TheCross-DressedVirginonaTightrope(mexico) 49
5.APolkafortheSunandSantiago(mexico) 65
part two:CorpusChristi
6.DancingunderFriendlyFire(catalonia) 83
7.AConfraternityofJews(castile—lamancha) 99
8.SaintSebastianandtheBlue-eyedBlacks(peru) 113
part three:Carnivals
9.AScatteringofAnts(galicia) 139
10.TheBanditandtheFatMan(navarre) 157
11.SafefortheBourgeoisie(belgium) 173
12.DevilsandDecorum(trinidad) 187
13.TheSinsoftheCarnivalVirgin(bolivia) 205
notes 227
bibliography 253
index 271
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