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tapping and defining new power: the first month of visions at Ezquioga, July 1931
Author(s) -
CHRISTIAN WILLIAM A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1987.14.1.02a00090
Subject(s) - vision , tapping , negotiation , newspaper , power (physics) , media studies , political science , sociology , social science , management , anthropology , physics , quantum mechanics , economics
Newspaper reports of the first month (July 1931) of multiple visions at Ezquioga in the Spanish Basque region provide an opportunity to study the process of negotiation whereby would‐be visionaries are Accepted or rejected, and visions come to have a content significant and appropriate to the preoccupations of the immediate audience and the wider society.