by Joan Amades · Deriva Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788445509074
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«La màgia del nom» is an essay by folklorist Joan Amades on the symbolism of names, published by Deriva Editorial in paperback and in Catalan.
Work by the Catalan folklorist examining how names become charged with magical, cultural, and symbolic meanings within popular tradition. Through language and identity, the author shows the ethnographic value of an everyday element that condenses beliefs, memory, and rituals in Catalan culture.
The Deriva Editorial edition was published in 1992 and includes a prologue and editing by Josep Martí; the text is in Catalan.
For readers interested in Catalan folklore, anthropology, and the symbolism of names.
Joan Amades i Gelats was a Catalan ethnologist and folklorist. An autodidact, he worked at the historical archive of the city of Barcelona and at the Museum of Industry and Popular Arts of the same city. From 1956 onwards, he collaborated with UNESCO. He was also an important promoter of Esperanto and founded the Federació Esperantista Catalana. Perhaps the most important book in his large bibliography is Costumari Català, the main work for the study of Catalan popular culture.
