The Civilisational Process of Portuguese Bullfighting

Warriors, Courtiers, Professionals...and Barbarians?

Fernando Ampudia De Haro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXV, 179 Seiten

2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-73612-4 (ISBN)

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This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilisational process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting. Its aim is to understand how bullfighting is historically configured according to the transformations undergone by the society in which it takes place. This means that bullfighting is approached in terms of its relationship with factors such as social structure, state power, the control of violence and the sensitivities and behaviours of different social groups. Its evolution and its construction as an activity can only be explained if we look at these factors from a sociological perspective that takes into account the passage of time. Such a view allows us to think of bullfighting in procedural terms. It means going back a thousand years and reconstructing a journey that, overall, cannot be described as a simple succession of facts, laws, dates and decisions by great personalities. On the contrary, this book argues it is a journey subject to the logic of changes in society, power relations and patterns of behaviour considered suitable for social life. And, as a path, it is not defined at random. It has a direction: bullfighting has been moving towards formalisation and pacification for centuries.

This book is of special interest to students and scholars of sociological theory, historical sociology, Eliasian theory, and human-animal relations.

Fernando Ampudia de Haro (Madrid 1975-Lisbon 2022), was an original sociologist, developing most of his work from the perspective of Norbert Elias. He was an Assistant Professor at the European University in Lisbon, and a Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon (IHC — NOVA FCSH). He has published several works in the areas of historical sociology, sociology of culture, and economic sociology.

1. Historical Sociology of Bullfighting.- 2. Certain Death: Bulls in the Medieval Period.- 3. The Emergence of Dexterity: The Courtesan Bullfight.- 4. The Construction of the Spectacle: Professional Bullfighting.- 5. A Civilised Sensibility.- 6. Final Notes.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 200 p. 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	bullfighting • Civilizing Process • Historical sociology • human-animal relations • Norbert Elias
ISBN-10	3-031-73612-5 / 3031736125
ISBN-13	978-3-031-73612-4 / 9783031736124
Zustand	Neuware