Word: andalusian
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...last stronghold of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, the Roman Catholic Church set a rigorous religious tone for Spain. For centuries, the Catholic faith - and the patriarchal family structure that it inspired - was the foundation of daily life from the hills of the Basque country to the Andalusian coastline. But the Spanish church was often an overbearing, sometimes repressive presence that brought the Inquisition and provided cover to Franco's fascist regime. Its influence was exemplified by the introduction of the Spanish Civil Code's Article 57, the so-called permiso marital, which required wives to obey their husbands...
...Prime Minister. Beyond the maneuverings of an avowedly republican party, other signs of change have appeared. In July, a weekly satirical magazine called El Jueves published a cartoon that depicted the heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, having sex with his wife. Over the summer, leaders of ten Andalusian towns signed a motion in the regional parliament that would "situate the democratic fight for a republic on the political agenda...
...Spain's most sophisticated resort areas, is also a city where bullfights hold a hallowed place. Every August the feasts bring thousands of bullfighting fans to the Plaza de Toros. But this year, the bullfights are also bringing in something more. On August 11 the pro-animal rights group Andalusian Collective Against Animal Mistreatment (CACMA, according to its Spanish initials), will stage the first demonstration ever in Malaga against this most popular and gory of Spain's traditions. It is the latest manifestation of an emerging protest movement against one of the most archetypal - critics would say stereotypical - of Spain...
...Harry Callahan. Still, these images are striking in their clarity and sophistication, and retain the mark of Clergue’s individuality. Downstairs, among throngs of nudes, one wall of the showroom hosts several of Clergue’s epic photographs of El Cordobés, the dauntless Andalusian matador. “Danseuse aux Affiches,” from his eerie series of young itinerant circus performers entitled “Saltimbanques,” hangs on the same wall. Sadly, it is the only print from “Saltimbanques,” and its quiet innocence...
...never the sense that she belongs someplace else. Eventually, she can recall only one word of Kyrgyz, her native tongue: kuraj. Di Natale is herself something of a kuraj. Born 54 years ago in Genoa, she studied in Milan and Monaco, became an ethnosociologist (known for her monograph on Andalusian farm workers) and settled in Germany, where she lives with her husband and son. For Kuraj, Di Natale interviewed scholars of Central Asia, Stalingrad veterans, former prison-camp inmates, Cologne civilians who survived the war and a Tunshan woman she calls Kaja. Accordingly, Kuraj sometimes reads like an ethnosociological monograph...