Fiestas, Saints and Spirituality: Collective Rituals as Community Eldercare in Andalusia
In this paper, I explore how spirituality and collective rituals influence eldercare in a small town in Andalusia, Spain. I describe how older people’s interactions with the town’s Virgin Mary statues generate personhood, situating the Virgin saints as spiritually protective kinship care-givers. As...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2022-11-01
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| Series: | Anthropology & Aging |
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| Online Access: | http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/anthro-age/article/view/384 |