Passional Culture: Emotion, Religion, and Society in Southern Spain

If you can dig through his very constipated prose style, his totally unnecessary social science jargon and his irritating habit of announcing everything that he's going to write and has just written (thus only 4 stars)--if you can plow your way through all that--there are some fascinating things to be learned from this book. I live in Andalucia, and find Mitchell's historical and sociological insights quite helpful in understanding behavior and attitutudes that are quite apparent even today.