01518nas a2200193   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653002000043653001300063653002400076653002100100653002100121100001600142245006200158856014900220300001100369520092400380022002001304                                       d10aCandle Lighting10aEmotions10aintangible heritage10amaterial culture10aVisual Sociology1 aE.B. Doncel00aSocial uses of candles. An approach with visual materials  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902984647&doi=10.5944%2fempiria.28.12122&partnerID=40&md5=eb7cec6b5c170b338eddab9defdcae92  a79-1063 aStates of devotion, sensual romances and esoteric rites are held in the light of the candles. This functional commodity is used as a  ritual artifact , incorporated with creativity to social events of dissimilar orientation. In this paper the image used as a resource document has revealed the ubiquity and repetition with which candles are lit in cultural practices as  atrezzo  and/or metaphor. The analysis of four contemporary frameworks which demonstrate the presence of a  candle lighting  -Decoration of public places, protest actions, popular mourning and memorials- suggested, on the one hand, the importance of aestheticization processes and on the other hand, the centrality for this expression to evoke remove the symbolic heritage. Both mechanisms -ethics and aesthetics- described conditions of possibility in the activation of human emotions that regulate, imperceptibly, cultural systems in social life.  a11395737 (ISSN)