03944nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-73613-1 DE-He213 20251030114634.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241223s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031736131 978-3-031-73613-1 10.1007/978-3-031-73613-1 doi HM621-656 JHB bicssc JFC bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh JHB thema JBCC thema Ampudia de Haro, Fernando. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 89425 The Civilising Process of Portuguese Bullfighting [electronic resource] : Warriors, Courtiers, Professionals...and Barbarians? / by Fernando Ampudia de Haro. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXIII, 178 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias, 2662-3110 1. The Historical Sociology of Bullfighting -- 2. Bulls in the Medieval Period -- 3. The Emergence of Dexterity: The Courtesan Bullfight -- 4. The Construction of the Spectacle: Professional Bullfighting -- 5. A Civilising Sensibility -- 6. Conclusion: The Civilising Process of Bullfighting. This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising 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 process and figurational 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. Culture. 59159 Sociology. 57193 Social sciences Philosophy. 60803 Sociology History. 72241 Ethnology Europe. 69002 Sociology of Culture. 68985 Sociological Theory. 66981 Social Theory. 58050 History of Sociology. 72243 European Culture. 69004 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031736124 Printed edition: 9783031736148 Printed edition: 9783031736155 Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias, 2662-3110 74439 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73613-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65964 65964