Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Numerous scholars have signalled that neo-pagan practitioners use their body and their senses to interact with the divine and elaborate a spiritual experience. However, the learning process followed to achieve and produce a sensing body capa…
In this article, we explore the learning of newcomers in a religious community through a micro-sociological approach, making use of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger’s (1991) notion of “legitimate peripheral participation” to conceptualize initi…
Cultural appropriation is a timely topic that has been taking up a lot of space in public discussions. The concept is often applied in heated debates aimed at calling out’ different actors and actions as appropriation, or on the other hand t…
El moderno tabú de la muerte se manifiesta en algunas residencias de ancianos mediante el ocultamiento de los fallecimientos producidos y la eliminación de los ritos, el luto y el duelo. No obstante, del tabú surgirán prácticas proxémicas qu…
El 17 de agosto del 2017, la ciudad de Barcelona se vio sacudida por un ataque terrorista en La Rambla. Al siguiente día, la gente se reunió en el paseo y depositó objetos como velas, peluches, flores o cartas, creando un total de ciento cin…
Vernacular religion connected with the clan was expected to adapt in the context of globalisation and the vanishing ideals of traditional (tribal) societies. But at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries a revival of European …