Culture and Customs of Spain

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 regionswith their distinct social customs dialects or languages foods landscape and lifestylesmore 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 worldfrom unparalleled literature and cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovarare celebrated. A chronology and glossary complement the text.