Altares tacheros

Minietnografías Azarosas De La Vida (Religiosa) Cotidiana

Bibliographic Data

ID2610531
AuthorsAlejandro Frigerio (0000-0003-0917-3103, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume4
Issue8
Pages279-308
Publication date2021-09-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEncartes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2594-2999 • E-ISSN: 2594-2999
PublisherCentro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.29340/en.v4n8.240
OpenAlexW3199230379
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

This work shows -and analyzes- the assemblages of magical-religious symbols and images than many taxi drivers in the city of Buenos Aires hang from their car mirrors or sun visors. It uses the word 'altars' cautiously to make these minimalist traces of daily religious life of the locals-objects which protect against the perils of the daily hustle and bustle and also witness relations established with specific suprahumans- visible. In these heterogenous assemblages, Catholic saints and virgins appear, along with popular saints and Eastern and /or esoteric symbols -which bear witness to the rich magical-religious diversity of the city- as well as photographs and souvenirs of sacrally charged individuals and social collectives (children, relatives, soccer clubs). These 'altars' are evidence of religious routes and beloved relatives, but are also result from random interactions with passengers, and bear witness to more general and less well-known patterns of how the city's inhabitants relate to suprahuman beings

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnology · Political science · Religious diversity · Religious life · Sociology · Witness · Anthropology · History · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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