Fire in the plaça: Catalan festival politics after Franco

I: Representing the festival

Between representation and presence: the onlooker problem

The Patum and the body politic

II: Personification and incorporation

The gaze and the touch: personhood and belonging in everyday life

The Patum effigies: attitudes personified

The techniques of incorporation

III: Under Franco: the Oedipal Patum

Return to the womb

The eye of the father

The new generation

IV: The mass and the outside: "The Patum will be ours no longer" == Consumption and the limits of metaphor

Reproduction and reduction

The Patum in Spain and the world.