Catalonia's human towers : castells, cultural politics, and the struggle toward the heights /
"The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of effort and overcoming, tension and rele...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- From "people of farts and burps" to crowning the Olympic Games
- The politics, erotics, and social class of touch and the body
- Risking the fall in political rallies
- Rivalry, antagonism, and identity among the Xiquets de Valls
- Bones have no gender
- The grace in every child
- At the height of death
- Epilogue : rebuilding towers in Messianic times and the global pandemic.
