Volume 34, Number 9 · May 28, 1987
The Invisible Fist
By Raymond Carr
Aggression and Community:Paradoxes of Andalusian Culture
by David D. Gilmore
Yale University Press, 218 pp., $24.50
David Gilmore writes that his interest in Spain started with Hemingway's Spanish novels, the poetry of García Lorca and the drama of the Golden Age, flamenco music, his own family's memories of the Civil War and the Lincoln Brigade. He found 'the color of the Spanish character…so refreshing compared to my own staid surroundings.' His scholarly work in anthropology started with a reading of Julian Pitt-Rivers's pioneering study of an Andalusian 'pueblo,' or rural town, a book that was to open the floodgates for the advance of the anthropologists into the Mediterranean world—there are thirty-two studies on Greece alone.[1] Gilmore's own study, The People of the Plain: Class and Community in Lower Andalusia (1980), was conceived as a corrective to Pitt-Rivers's conservatism, which left the pueblo a thing in itself, an isolated, harmonious universe relatively insulated from political and social conflict.
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