A book about women workers in the tobacco industry Bernat Capó wins Alicante 2012

Teresa Lanceta won last Saturday with XIV Bernat Capó Prize the spread of popular culture thanks to his book From my mother I inherited. Women and tobacco industry in Alicante. in which he tells the story of the many women working in the tobacco industry alicantina through numerous direct witnesses.

Finally, there were 14 finalist works for the prize awarded each year by the publishing house Edicions El Bullent. The jury, formed by Mari Carmen Cañada (Head of the Library-Documentation Center of the Museum of Valencià d'Etnologia), José Antonio López Mira (Conselleria de Cultura. General Directorate of Heritage), Julio Blasco (Director of the Museu Valencià de la Festa d'Algemesí), Antoni Prats (Secretary of the Institute of Regional Studies of the Marina Alta) and Pablo Vidal (Institute of Anthropology of the UCV) evaluated Lanceta's work "the originality of the subject, the interest it has at the popular level to address the problem of the role of women in social changes in the twentieth century. In addition to being a very complete and methodologically successful work, with a model use of sources oral without losing fluency and amenity ", As reads the minutes.

Lanceta received his award from Nuria Sendra, Edicions El Bullent, and Bernat Capó. The winner thanked the jury award and inspiring own study of the tobacco workers in Alicante.

The event was presented by MªJosep Poquet and enlivened by the Quinmetall brass quintet. Juan Bautista Roselló, Deputy for Culture of the Provincial Council of Alicante, Antoni Joan Bertomeu, President of MACMA, Joan Seguí, Director of the Museu Valencià d'Etnologia of the Provincial Council of Valencia, Nuria Sendra, from Edicions El Bullent, participated with their words. Pepa Font, councilor for culture in Dénia and Bernat Capó himself, who despite being 84 years old and having recently undergone cataract surgery, did not want to miss the event.