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Fiestas, saints and spirituality: Collective rituals as community eldercare in Andalusia (2022)
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Place, C. (2022). Fiestas, saints and spirituality: Collective rituals as community eldercare in Andalusia. Anthropology and Aging, 43(2), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2022.384

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... Read More about Fiestas, saints and spirituality: Collective rituals as community eldercare in Andalusia.