Foreword
James W. Fernandez
Chapter 1. States in the Northwest
- Forgotten Galicia
- Auctoritas
- Imaginations
- The Path of Traditions
- Visions and Pilgrimages
- Stories of Anthropology - (also) a prodigal daughter of nations
- Webs of Meanings in the Northwest
Chapter 2. On Galicia Day
- A Day of Almost Everything
- Around the Cathedral
- Galicia Rising
- In the Quintana dos Mortos
- Avatars of the Apostle
- In the Oak Wood of San Lourenzo
- Return to the City through Santa Susana
Chapter 3. Precursors/Galician Culture
- Resurgence - bards and prophets
- Encounters with the people, art and the hirmandade na fala [Brotherhood in the language]
- A Manifesto in 1918
- A Periodical from Ourense
- Three Lustra of Efforts
- Remembering[s] and forgetting[s]
- Memory of Nos
- Excursus: a polymathic Galicianist, ethnography and the presence of death in Galicia
Chapter 4. Indianos, the country of bagpipes and the nation of Breogan
- Doing the Inappropriate, Some Andalusian Caprices
- Country of Bagpipes
- Other pipers
- Xente que sabe moito in various places [People that know a lot...]
- A Story of Automobiles and Speech
Chapter 5. In The Skin of the Bull: State and Locations of Anthropology
- Types and Places of Anthropologies
- Two Precursors of Circumstance
- Mythical-Mystic Elaborations and Atlantic Myths
- Inheritors/Inheritances
- Parishes
Chapter 6. Portugal in Galicia
- Kinship and affinity
- Galician stories of Lusos [Portuguese]
- A song gathered in a remote place
- The Free Voices of Galicians and Minhotans
- Where is Portuguese identity?
Chapter 7. The Minho and the painting of the customs of nations
- An early and imaginative theory of the provinces
- An Improbable Lineage
- An Argument about Images
Chapter 8. The 1st Portuguese Colonial Exposition and the Ethnographic Representation of the Provinces
- Traces of a New Culture
- Modern Representation of an Imagined Community
- To See the blacks and something more
- The Beginning of the End of Parody
Chapter 9. A Place in the Mountains or the (mis)encounters oIf Soajo
- A Very Imagined Place
- Diverging Citations
- Lands of Traditions - encounters
Chapter 10. Trail of the Celts and the Lusitanians
- In Galicia, Like in Ireland, Like in Ireland...
- What the archeologists say and lessons in a head of beer
- Stories more or less known by Michel and the gossip of Primitivo
- Other licoes de cousas on this side of the Minho river
- Trails taken by the Celts in the Northwest