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- Title
La gènesi del significat en un ritual: les fogueres catalanistes de la Nit de Sant Joan de 1906 i 1907.
- Authors
i Girbau, Jordi Castellví
- Abstract
On Midsummer Eve 1906, in a time of political effervescence in Catalonia, a new Catalanist ritual was invented. The newspaper reports of the time speak of a festival evoking a new and modern future of freedom, but paradoxically this desire was expressed through traditional symbolic elements of considerable antiquity. Fire, mountains, and the romanticism associated with St. John's Eve not only combined to create a message of renewal, but also generated unexpected meanings regarding certain social problems. The "Patriotic Bonfires", as they were called, became an emergent ritual, combining powerfully symbolic objects in a way that made possible the representation of "Catalan unity" and "iberty", essential elements in the discourse of the Solidaritat Catalana political coalition, and incorporated into the bonfires of St. John's Eve the meanings that still endure a century later.
- Publication
Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia, 2015, Issue 31, p19
- ISSN
0211-5557
- Publication type
Article