出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:This article deals with ritual forms of inter-community violence endemic in rural Galicia and their interaction with new varieties of societal and political activity in the late nineteenth century and first third of the twentieth century. We approach the subject using archival documents, press and literary sources and oral tradition. Seen in the past as a sign of the uncivilized character of the rural population, this variety of «horizontal violence» reveal however an inner logic related to the defense of the cohesion of the village community and the life-cycle of the males.