Dear Colleagues,
this book may be of interest for some of you. apologies for cross-posting
and please circulate widely.
All the Best
Anna Fedele
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Released by Central European University Press
THE STRANGER, THE TEARS, THE PHOTOGRAPH, THE TOUCH
Divine Presence in Spain and Europe since 1500
William A. Christian Jr.
310 pages, paperback, with 344 illustrations
ISBN 978-615-5225-29-1
$55.00 / £44.00 / €52.00
This book is an expanded, larger-format, and more highly illustrated
version of a smaller book released by CEU Press in 2011. It presents and
comments on an extensive set of religious and personal photographs and
illustrations that depict people along with divine beings or absent loved
ones. First, Christian examines the periodic appearances of Christ-like
strangers in the Spanish countryside through the vision of a woman in La
Mancha in 1931. Then he considers the long history of images with liquids
on them not only for early modern Spain, but also in the United States,
Italy and France in the 1940s and 1950s. The third and most extensive
chapter addresses the iconography of illustrated depictions of divine and
spirit beings in conjunction with humans and how its conventions were
incorporated into commercial postcards and personal photographs,
culminating in photo montages of families and their absent soldiers in
World War I. The fourth theme is new to this edition. It compares the
electric moments in Spanish communities when people ritually come into
physical contact with saints and with animals, or transform themselves into
saints or animals for ritual purposes. Over 50 of the color photographs by
Spain's preeminent documentary photographer, Cristina García Rodero, are
included.
Ordering information: www.ceupress.com ⦁ [log in to unmask]
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*Anna Fedele Ph.D <http://annafedele.com/>*
Senior Researcher
Center for Research in Anthropology - Lisbon University Institute
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