The village festivals and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Alejandra Gámez Espinosa Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Puebla, México
Keywords: Pandemic, COVID-19, Critical Event, Festive Life, Ethnographic Work, Social Processes, Indigenous Villages

Abstract

This issue is dedicated to a topic of great socio-cultural relevance, but also economic, political and health for peasant and indigenous societies, as it is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the flow of social life and specifically in the realization of the religious festivals of the towns.

Author Biography

Alejandra Gámez Espinosa, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Puebla, México

María del Socorro Alejandra Gámez Espinosa has a PhD in Anthropology from the ENAH, and is a research professor on the Postgraduate Course in Social Anthropology at the BUAP Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Member of the National System of Researchers level II. Coordinator of various research projects on indigenous culture (religion, ritual, worldview, cargo system, crafts, territory and ethnohistory), sponsored and financed by various institutions. He has published various books and articles in national and international magazines on the indigenous societies of the States of Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico.

References

Das, V. (1995). Critical Events: an anthropological perspective on contemporary India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Lins Ribeiro, G. (2021). “Descotidianizar” el mundo. La pandemia como evento crítico, sus revelaciones y (re)interpretaciones. Desacatos, Revista De Ciencias Sociales, (65), pp. 106-123.
Published
2022-01-05
How to Cite
Gámez Espinosa, A. (2022). The village festivals and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mirada Antropológica, 17(22), 3-7. Retrieved from http://rd.buap.mx/ojs-dm/index.php/mirant/article/view/748
Issue
Vol 17 No 22 (2022): Mirada Antropológica
Section
PRESENTATION

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