
- 232 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Culture and Customs of Spain
About this book
Modern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview. Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. Students of Spanish and a general audience will be rewarded with engrossing insights into what writer Ernest Hemingway called the very best country of all. Spain is a modern European nation, yet Spaniards are fiercely tied to their individual towns and regionsâwith their distinct social customs, dialects or languages, foods, landscape, and lifestylesâmore than to a united country. Culture and Customs of Spain conveys the extremes, such as the hard-working Catalan contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in first and third world conditions, and the love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church. Spain's institutions are described, and its contributions to the worldâfrom unparalleled literature and cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovarâare celebrated. A chronology and glossary complement the text.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- 1 Context
- 2 Religion
- 3 Customs
- 4 Media
- 5 Cinema
- 6 Literature
- 7 Performing Arts
- 8 Visual Arts
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index