You were poking around in his business. Mages get peevy about that, especially when they're not being good citizens.

[…] quaint and picturesque from a distance, you didn't want to know; nor the crime rate, nor those small cafés where they served up the usual muck. The frozen steak houses and chipperies.

many a warlike match

Being constituted as an object of anthropological study, while a crucial form of recognition, may—given the association of anthropology with the exotic or “traditional”—also have the effect of cementing Andalucía’s folkloricness and reproducing its othering.