TY - JOUR
KW - Candle Lighting
KW - Emotions
KW - intangible heritage
KW - material culture
KW - Visual Sociology
AU - E.B. Doncel
AB - States 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.
DO - 10.5944/empiria.28.12122
M1 - 28
N1 - Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
N2 - States 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.
SP - 79
EP - 106
TI - Social uses of candles. An approach with visual materials
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902984647&doi=10.5944%2fempiria.28.12122&partnerID=40&md5=eb7cec6b5c170b338eddab9defdcae92
SN - 11395737 (ISSN)
ER -