La mirada antropológica a los objetos
Dolors Agulló Hernández - Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona
These case studies are the result of collaborative work between doctoral students
who participated in the seminar "Issues of religious anthropology of Spain", by
William A. Christian. This seminar, included in the Master program in Social and
Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, aims to provide
useful skills and approaches to the religion study in the present and the past, but in
a broader context and from a somewhat particular perspective, as it involves an
anthropological look at objects.
The seminar was designed to provide practical learning. Participants learned by
doing and sharing findings in the course of exercises. The classes include students
from previous workshops and persons with special relationships with certain
objects. And in the process of doing and sharing, we found contrasts that at times took us into religion and a world of symbolism, meaning and significance, but in
any case, provided a profound anthropological experience.
Key words: Research exercise, anthropological experience, objects, religion,
symbolism, material culture.
Algo más que un celular: notas sobre el papel de la telefonía móvil en la vida de adolescentes de Santiago (Chile)
Wilson Muñoz Henríquez - Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona
This case study of two teenagers in Santiago de Chile shows the radical importance
of mobile telephony on their lives. It highlights the role of this technology as
connector, but above all as key marker for personal identity, as a mechanism for
social inclusion, and as a source of prestige within the peer group.
Key words:Adolescence, mobile telephony, identity, social inclusion, Chile.
Los objetos y la memoria:
pequeña etnografía de un piso en la Barceloneta
Maite Marín - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
This essay is a reflexion on objects and their ability to contain the memory of
places, times, identities. It tells the stories evoked by furniture, clocks, paintings
and photos in a flat in the neighbourhood la Barceloneta. From these stories, its
three inhabitants rebuild parts of their nomadic lives, marked by exile and
migration. The objects, with their durability, can impede the effort to forget, but
also set up new spaces and meanings.
Key words: Objects, memory, identity, exile, migration, material culture.
Un objeto de investigación
que se convierte en objeto de unión
Cristina Cocco - Universidad de Barcelona
According to a belief widespread among older persons in the south of Sardinia,
certain personas were divinely condemned while still alive for crimes against public morality. Such persons, so it is said, were mostly wealthy landowners who lived in the middle years of the last century. The soul of such persons condemned when living supposedly could leave the body, giving these individuals the capacity for
bilocation.
The belief and the shared memory of events related to the stories of these souls
link many people who still believe in this phenomenon. Leaving aside the various
historical and psychological interpretations, this essay shows how these souls have
been objects of union, over the decades, among persons who directly or indirectly
experienced this phenomenon.
The purpose is to understand how these souls could be considered a source of
interpersonal connection or division, and above all, how the meaning and nature of
these soul/objects have been changing, acquiring new and even opposite attributes,
as over time the stories are related to new people.
Key words: Belief, soul, morality, memory, connecting objects, Sardinia, bilocation.
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