Araceli González-Vázquez- PhD (Cantabria), BA (Deusto, Cantabria)
- Científica Titular at Spanish National Research Council
Araceli González-Vázquez
- PhD (Cantabria), BA (Deusto, Cantabria)
- Científica Titular at Spanish National Research Council
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Introduction
I work as a Tenured researcher (Científica Titular) at the Institución Milà i Fontanals, CSIC (Barcelona). I have previously worked as postdoctoral researcher at the ILC-CCHS, CSIC (2016-17), at the Univ. of the Basque Country (2013-14), and at the Laboratoire d´Anthropologie Sociale of the Collège de France (2011-12). My research interests include anthropologies of religion, Islam, Sufism, and Gender, and human/non-human relations. I have conducted fieldwork in Morocco, the Basque Country, Cantabria and Ceuta.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
July 2016 - July 2018
January 2014 - present
July 2013 - July 2013
Summer School "La España Africana", University of Alicante
Position
- Professor
Education
October 2010
June 2005
June 2004
Publications
Publications (122)
Three different calendars coexist in contemporary Morocco: Gregorian, Muslim and Agrarian. Each governs ritual times, feast days, events and daily life activities. The coexistence of these calendars both layers and juxtaposes measures of time. Time and temporality offer a unique entry point for understanding various aspects of the Moroccan lifecycl...
En este artículo, centrado en el libro Wit and Wisdom in Morocco: A Study of Native Proverbs, publicado por el sociólogo finlandés Edvard Westermarck en 1930, examino un corpus de proverbios de animales. Para abordar un estudio de las teorías locales sobre la animalidad, evalúo en qué medida el libro incluye una ontografía, una escritura sobre los...
La peste que golpeó Marruecos en 1799 y 1800 fue una epidemia sin precedentes. En este artículo, examino algunas observaciones hechas sobre la peste por el agente comercial británico James Grey Jackson, en particular sus ideas sobre las comprensiones islámicas locales de la agencia de los jnūn y de Dios (Allāh) en la aparición de esta enfermedad.
We present our experiences with a series of ‘forgotten groups’ that empower themselves through outreach activities. The authors coordinate or advise different activities, but the protagonists and promoters are those people, the ‘forgotten groups’. This work includes a description of objectives, methods and practices when coordinating inclusive outr...
The twenty-first century has been marked strongly with two extremely significant developments, firstly the increase in international terror attacks and secondly the evolution of media and information consumption based on technological advancements. These phenomena together have led to the figurative and literal blowing up of mass media coverage, bu...
Since 2013 we built a working group formed by researchers, educators, social workers, communicators and educational psychologists to bring archaeological research to all types of audiences, especially those with limited access to scientific dissemination programmes. In particular, we refer to people with psychological disorders or physical disabili...
This paper analyses the linguistic diversity among the Berberophones in northern Morocco in the period of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956). To do this, I focus on the documentary materials kept in digital archives, which allow us to go deeper into the knowledge of how Spaniards may have shown interest in Berberophony. In particular,...
Diferents investigadors de la Institució Milà i Fontanals del CSIC venen desenvolupant recerques sobre ciutats on s'analitza la relació entre allò local i allò global des de la perspectiva de la glocalització. Les seves aproximacions des de l'antropologia, la història de la ciència, els estudis medievals, la musicologia i l'arqueologia, mostren que...
Islam is often presented as a strongly anthropocentric religion. Anthropomorphism, in the case of God and animals as well, has been and still is at the heart of many theological debates. In many fables which are transmitted orally by both Arabophone and Berberophone speakers in the mountains of Jbala and Ghomara (Northern Morocco), animals are able...
In her chapter, Araceli González Vázquez explores the relation between
Jewish Moroccan sanctity, gender, and memory. In order to do so, she examines a dossier of personal letters sent by the Jewish Moroccan Haïm Hatchwell to the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU). The letters were sent in the years 1880 and 1897; the dossier is preserved in the a...
Los programas de divulgación científica parecen preparados para todo tipo de público. Sin embargo, ciertos colectivos —p.e., personas con discapacidad física e intelectual, de la tercera edad, en riesgo de exclusión social, inmigrantes recién llegados— quedan habitualmente al margen de tales programas y no se piensa en ellos a la hora de diseñarlos...
The starting point for this conference is the need to make visible the strategies used by cultural, religious and linguistic African minorities to express themselves in current Iberian societies. We propose to compare two case studies, historically and geographically related, Portugal and Spain, encouraging an Iberian studies perspective. Our centr...
ESR 4. PhD position!
3-year PhD position/full-time contract for an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) within H2020 MSCA ITN MIDA "Mediating Islam in the Digital Age". Deadline: 1st of June 2019. All the info at: www.itn-mida.org.
PhD position!
3-year PhD position/full-time contract within H2020 MSCA Innovative Training Network MIDA "Mediating Islam in the Digital Age". Apply before 1st of June. All the info at: www.itn-mida.org.
PhD position!
3-year PhD position/full-time contract within H2020 MSCA Innovative Training Network MIDA "Mediating Islam in the Digital Age". Apply before the 1st of June. All the information at: www.itn-mida.org.
Aunque los programas de divulgación científica relacionados con la arqueología parecen preparados para todo tipo de públicos, la realidad es muy diferente. Los museos, los parques arqueológicos, las visitas a yacimientos, suelen tener un público “cautivo” o fiel como son los niños y jóvenes de escuelas e institutos, y las familias con ciertos recur...
El concepto de “Islam popular” cuenta con un amplio predicamento en la bibliografía académica que generan las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades, y también, de modo general, en los discursos mediáticos contemporáneos sobre el Islam y los musulmanes, y es empleado particularmente cuando se trata de caracterizar ciertas creencias y prácticas religio...
The book includes texts of Araceli González Vázquez (IMF-CSIC), Ana Lúcia Sá (ISCTE-IUL), Axel Fleisch (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Jordi Moreras (URV), Gustau Nerín (CEAH), Catalina Iliescu (UA) Rita Bosaho (UA), Nuria Fernández (UNED), and Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré (IMF-CSIC). Its first edition was published by CSIC in 2015 (Tras las huellas del col...
En los discursos orales de los Jbala (norte de Marruecos), especialmente en las narraciones de tradición oral transmitidas intergeneracionalmente por mujeres, las ogresas son concebidas como seres híbridos de humanos y no humanos (animales). Más allá de las interesantes observaciones sobre su fisicalidad y su interioridad humana y animal, los inves...
In present-day oral accounts on the life and wanderings of the saint Sidi Ikhlef, who is said to be buried among the Ghzawa (province of Chefchaouen, Jbalan mountains, Morocco), we might find interesting contemporary discourses on Idrisid expansion, Sharifianism, and Sainthood. Sidi Ikhlef is presented as a descendant of one of the twelve sons of I...
Programme of the International conference Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial Spanish legacies in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea
Este artículo explora los entrelazamientos pretéritos y presentes de la Arqueología y la Antropología cultural. Se centra en cuestiones de naturaleza teórica, epistemológica y metodológica. En particular, examina debates recientes ligados al llamado giro ontológico de las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades.
International Conference “Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial Spanish legacies in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea”. March 14-15, 2018. Barcelona, Institució Milà i Fontanals - CSIC.
Despite the fact that there were significant differences between Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean colonisation, it is clear that a series of socio-cultural,...
L'hospitalité, plus particulièrement son caractère normatif, est un des thèmes classiques de l'anthropologie sociale, souvent traité à propos des sociétés méditerranéennes. En dépit d'un regain d'intérêt récent de l'anthropologie sociale pour le thème de l'hospitalité, l'imaginaire et la pratique de l'hospitalité interspécifique demeurent peu explo...
The talk aims at discussing North African Muslim local understandings of the saint´s body by exploring discourses on Moroccan and Algerian Sufí saints whose bodies are said to be buried in two or more locations. Based on ethnographically-driven examples, we will discuss the most salient aspects of these thoroughly troubled dead bodies. Interestingl...
A través del neologismo simultopía, acuñado en lengua inglesa por el arquitecto norteamericano Brian P. McGrath en un artículo de 2002, y de un enfoque fundamentalmente fenomenológico, proponemos una reflexión sobre las concepciones del cuerpo de algunos awliyāʾ norteafricanos (marroquíes y argelinos) que poseen sepulturas múltiples (dobles y tripl...
Resumen: En el último cuarto del siglo XVIII, el orientalista sueco Matthias Norberg
(1747-1826) actúa como praeses en las disertaciones de dos de sus alumnos, una sobre la
lingua maroccana, de Michaël B. Nolleroth (1787), y otra sobre la lingua melitensi, de
Anders Henric Corvin (1793). En este artículo analizamos sus ideas sobre el árabe marroquí...
En su ya clásico Ritual theory, ritual practice (Oxford University Press, 1992), Catherine Bell examina la obra de varios investigadores que han realizado aportaciones teóricas y metodológicas muy significativas al estudio del ritual desde un punto de vista antropológico y sociológico. Bell menciona, entre otros, los trabajos de Robertson Smith, Du...
En un texto escrito en Túnez en 1967 y publicado en 1984, el titulado « Des espaces autres », Michel Foucault aborda el problema de lo simultáneo y de la simultaneidad, y propone la noción de heterotopía para entender mejor las contestaciones míticas y reales del espacio en el que vivimos. Nuestra comunicación presenta un análisis de los discursos...
This article examines a relatively unknown 18th century European source on Moroccan Arabic. It is the article entitled “Dialogues on the vulgar Arabick of Morocco”, published in London in 1797 by William Price (1771–1830), a self-taught linguist and orientalist from Worcester, England. Price’s work is one of the few European texts predating 1800 fo...
Northern Morocco, where several different Arabic and Berber varieties are spoken, was under Spanish protectorate until 1956. Our current knowledge of Moroccan linguistic diversity owes much to many descriptions published by different European researchers in the times of the European protectorates. This paper turns to the understudied question of ho...
The Sephardic Jewish saint and martyr Solica Hatchouel, whose grave is located in the Jewish cemetery of the Mellah (Jewish quarter) of the Moroccan city of Fes, is the object of a cult by her followers from the Jewish community of Fes and Jewish pilgrims, mainly of Sephardic and Moroccan origin, both from elsewhere in Morocco and also from foreign...
Cette communication s´intéresse aux rapports humains-animaux chez les paysans Jbala du nord du Maroc. En abordant le rôle des jnûn dans les relations interspécifiques et les visions humains du monde animal, nous allons présenter les résultats d´un terrain interdisciplinaire mené en commun dans le cadre du PICS « La montagne et ses savoirs » par deu...
La historia del cautivo francés Bernard Bausset, que sobrevive tras ser arrojado a un foso con catorce
leones hambrientos por parte del sultán de Marruecos Mulay Ismail, forma parte de la Relation de
captivité de Germain Moüette, una obra editada en París en 1683. Este relato nos permite explorar la
instrumentalización religiosa y política de la me...
In the last decades, different running debates seem to be developing into a so-called « ontological turn » in Anthropology and other Social Sciences. This paper examines human and non-human relations in the Moroccan Rif, recent work using the concept of « ontography », and new approaches to « ethnographic writing ». It mainly focuses on British ant...
¿De qué hablan algunos antropólogos cuando hablan del « giro ontológico » (ontological turn, tournant ontologique) de la Antropología contemporánea (Viveiros de Castro 2003 ; Henare, Holbraad y Wastell 2007)? ¿Estamos frente a un nuevo enfoque teórico o teórico-metodológico? ¿Es el giro ontológico, como dicen sus críticos, únicamente una « moda » e...
Este artículo es un estudio crítico del Dictionaire François-Arabesque del cautivo francés Germain Moüette, publicado en París en 1683 como parte de su memoria autobiográfica titulada Relation de captivité du Sieur Moüette. Es uno de los escasos ejemplos de léxicos o diccionarios europeos de árabe marroquí publicados en la Edad Moderna, y se refier...
The anthropology of Muslim milieux involves the study of very different issues in the treatment of the relations between humans and non-humans. Interestingly, academic research has a long history of engagement with the analysis of the co-existence of Muslims and non-human beings. This panel engages with recent (re)thinking of human and non-human ag...
In this article, we examine the theoretical contributions and conceptualizations of patri- archy that have exerted the largest influence on the way sociologists and anthropologists address the study of social and gender inequalities in Muslim majority societies. We also explain the concept of androcentrism and examine its potential as a conceptual...
In 1994-95, fifteen years ago, M. Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the city of Fez, Morocco, conducting ethnographic research on girls and unmarried women working in the garment industry. That year of fieldwork led to the completion of her PhD dissertation, entitled Garment factory workers in Morocco (Columbia University, 1997). Much of her data wa...
Intersexuality is considered a critical, subversive and deconstructive tool for the categories of sex and gender, in particular from social constructivist theoretical positions well nurtured by post-estructuralist rethoric. The purpose of this article is to discuss the reception of Foucault’s thought in studies on Intersexuality, explain his concep...
Based upon eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological
research in a rural and montainous area of the south of Jbala or Western Rif, northern
Morocco, this doctoral thesis explores the changing constructions of gender in a
muslim society, and it analyzes gender constructions underlying religious discourses
and discourses on alteri...
