Author : Laura Desfor Edles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621403
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain by : Laura Desfor Edles
Download or read book Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain written by Laura Desfor Edles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the transition to democracy of post-Franco Spain. Since General Franco's death in 1975, Spanish political life has seen an extraordinarily quiescent "period of consensus," unique in its own history. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to this "strategy of consensus" and institutionalization of democracy, and uncovers the processes of symbolization and ritualization that characterize it.