The Holy Week dramas of southern Spain have astounded visitors for centuries. Striking as they are, however, they are only the tip of a cultural iceberg. Casual visitors cannot guess how the cult of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812282027
ISBN13:9780812282023
Release Date:March 1990
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
If you can dig through his very constipated prose style, his totally unnecessary social science jargon and his irritating habit of announcing everything that he's going to write and has just written (thus only 4 stars)--if you can plow your way through all that--there are some fascinating things to be learned from this book. I live in Andalucia, and find Mitchell's historical and sociological insights quite helpful in understanding behavior and attitutudes that are quite apparent even today.
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