Estado de fiesta

Synopsis of Estado de fiesta

«Estado de fiesta: Feria, foro, corte y circo» is the essay by Enrique Gil Calvo, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback (212 pages, in Spanish).

The book examines what moves people to celebrate and what the festival says about social life. It takes as its guiding thread fairs, forums, courts and circuses, meeting places where the communal bond is at stake. Using the tools of sociology and anthropology, it interprets the cultural meaning of these celebrations and their role in the collective.

The work won the Espasa Mañana Prize for Essay in 1991 and is part of the Espasa Mañana collection; it includes a bibliography (pp. 209-212).

For readers interested in the sociology of culture and in the analysis of festivals and celebrations as a social phenomenon.