Yael DansacUniversité Libre de Bruxelles | ULB · Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies of Religion and Secularism (CIERL)
Yael Dansac
CIVIS3i - Marie Curie Research Fellow. PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology by the EHESS.
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Introduction
Anthropologist, and the recipient of a CIVIS3i post-doctoral fellowship co-funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions. Affiliated with the Centre interdisciplinaire d'étude des religions et de laïcité of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as well as with the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Glasgow, she leads a transnational research project on the contemporary sacralization of European megalithic sites.
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September 2014 - January 2022
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Over the last twenty years, the rejection of singular or unique concepts of nature has given rise to a multiplicity of notions which are not limited to the “living” or “the visible”. Better than “non-humans” or “other-than-humans”, which characterize by opposition to the humans, that remain at the centre, the expression “more-than-humans” provides...
In Brittany, a region situated in the northwest of France, rituals inspired by alternative spiritual practices are held on a regular basis. They generally take place among the Carnac stones, an archaeological site composed of megaliths which participants considered to be inhabited by non-human entities named “nature spirits.” Practices are defined...
This entry considers the origins, development, applications and main elements of Archaeological Ethnography, a trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural field concerned with the multiple and conflicting meanings of archaeological heritage. Seeking to establish new ethical frameworks in archaeological research, this discipline applies an ethnographic ap...
This article explores the learning process to develop a sensing body through visualization and bodily attention in alternative spiritual practices held at Brittany’s megaliths, located in northwest France. Drawing on the sensory ethnography approach, this article argues that participants achieve the experience of their sensing body following four m...
En los últimos cincuenta años han surgido diferentes movimientos espirituales que no corresponden al modelo de iglesia y que debido a su carácter fluido y dinámico han propiciado un avance de redes globales y han contribuido a hacer de las fronteras especializadas campos cada vez más porosos y permeables. Ha surgido así un abanico de prácticas y cr...
Ethnographical studies increasingly testify the conversion of archaeological sites into places used for a myriad of spiritual purposes associated to the culture of personal transformation. Analyzing data gathered at contemporary spiritual practices held in Carnac, a megalithic site located in northwest France, this article argues that the resignifi...
In the last fifty years, different spiritual movements—that do not correspond to the church model and that—have emerged, due to their fluid and dynamic character, have propitiated an advance of global networks and have contributed to making specialized frontiers increasingly porous and permeable fields. A range of practices and beliefs related to N...
This article explores bodily interactions, somatic experiences, and embodiment of New Age and contemporary Paganism practitioners conducting spiritual practices in the megaliths of Carnac in northwest France. Inspired from the sensory ethnography approach and applying a specific methodological framework elaborated for this study, the article argues...
Las prácticas rituales alternativas que se desarrollan actualmente en los megalitos del Morbihan son consideradas principalmente como bienes de consumo que participan en el mercado local de productos espirituales. La manera en que estas prácticas se presentan en el terreno pone en evidencia las dinámicas económicas que las caracterizan. Dichas crea...
Resumen Este artículo presenta una narración etnográSica no exhaustiva en la que la autora expone, a través de la inevitable subjetividad de la experiencia de campo, los pormenores antropológicos de las prácticas rituales inspiradas del paganismo contemporáneo y del New Age que tuvieron lugar en el sitio arqueológico de Stonehenge el 21 de junio de...
En las biografías culturales sobre elementos materiales se exploran los roles de los objetos en las dinámicas sociales, teniendo en cuenta que el ciclo de vida de la cultura material está anclado al universo social y simbólico de las personas. Usando testimonios orales recolectados en la población rural de Teuchitlán, el presente artículo expone la...
Le patrimoine archeologique est un reservoir de significations en constante reformulation, d’ou son caractere polysemique. Dans cet esprit, j’expose les resultats d’une enquete ethnographique consacree a l’exploration des connaissances locales portant sur le site precolombien du Guachimontones, a l’Ouest du Mexique. L’analyse de l’information recue...
In the Jalisco region of the valleys of Tequila, cultural and economic wealth has been exploited since time immemorial. This territory, recently named Agave Landscape and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains a high density of archaeological sites and pre-Hispanic materials. Unfortunately, looting and the destruction of such evidence are...
