This article focuses on the rising controversies about religious symbols, in particular the debates about the prohibition of the Islamic full‐face veil (burka, niqab) in public space.Starting from the case of a Catalan ...

The intertwining of secret and personal identity features prominently in Alfred Hitchcock's cinema. Its plots are full of people falsely accused, mistaken identities, characters with a hidden past, double agents, blackmailers, ...

The different ways in which identity, ethnicity and religion relate to each other feature prominently in the present discussion on sociology and anthropology of religion. However, not much empirical effort has been done ...

This exploration of the relation between women’s cinema and Latin American cinemas, begins by interrogating the categories of national cinema, Latin American cinema, and women’s cinemas, in order to transcend the geopolitical, ...

This article presents some of the results of a research about egalitarian couples. Specifically, the research studies the negotiations and decision-making strategies in this kind of relations from a gender perspective. ...

From a feminist care perspective, this article analyses how literary and ethnographic approaches represent care work and the relationship between the domestic employee and the employer, thus contributing to make visible ...

This paper investigates the relationship between religion and the construction of national identity. To do this, we combine various contributions of anthropology, sociology and history. It is a matter of great complexity. ...

This article explores the reality of work of long-term care in nursing homes. The aim is to analyse the effects of the social organization of care work, both in work centers and society, on the experiences of care workers ...

The present article is based on two ethnographic researches with women engaged in paid domestic work in the cities of Bogotá and Beirut. Many of the workers’ accounts outline the political and subjective complexity of ...