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Festive Traditions in Modernity: The Public Sphere of the Festival of the ‘Fallas’ in Valencia (Spain)

Xavier Costa

subject

Sociology and Political ScienceAnthropologyModernitymedia_common.quotation_subjectField (Bourdieu)05 social sciencesArt historyMythology0506 political science050903 gender studiesReflexivity050602 political science & public administrationPublic sphereSociology0509 other social sciencesmedia_common

description

Festive sociability is central for the transmission of tradition and is a fundamental field of interaction between the festive tradition and modernity. This sociability has a reflexivity and a public sphere of its own. The dominant modernist opposition between tradition and modernity is questioned with the help of a recent study of the Fire Festival of the ‘Fallas’ (Valencia, Spain).

https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00395