Articles with the keyword identity

• Hazel Andrews

  Tourism as a ‘Moment of Being’

  Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society Volume 34(2) 2009:5-21

  Abstract

  The purpose of this article is to gather together a number of conceptual or
  theoretical points drawn from the wider social anthropological discourse on the
  nature of experience. It advances understandings of the anthropology of experience
  through the medium of tourism. In turn it also illuminates understandings of
  the nature of tourism experiences. The article is largely a theoretical piece that is
  illustrated with details drawn from an ethnographic study of two charter tourism
  resorts—Palmanova and Magaluf—in Mallorca. Therefore, in an attempt to
  elucidate more carefully what experience means, it draws on the discussions of
  ‘experience’ in the wider anthropological literature, most notably the existential
  anthropology of Michael Jackson (2005) and The Anthropology of Experience
  (Turner and Bruner 1986), and makes links to the writings of Pierre Bourdieu
  on the concepts of ‘habitus’ and ‘field’, bringing them to bear on the subject of
  tourism.

  Keywords Erfahrung, Erlebnis, experience, habitus, identity, Mallorca, tourists

• Martin Lindhardt

  Narrating Religious Realities: Conversion and testimonies in Chilean Pentecostalism

  Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society Volume 34(3) 2009: 25-43

  Abstract

  In this paper I explore the complex and constitutive role of narrative practice in
  Chilean Pentecostalism. I argue that it is in large part through different kinds of
  storytelling that Pentecostal self identities are produced, nourished and modified.
  Particular attention is focused on testimonies of salvation, and life stories as
  narrative practices through which converts engage in ongoing construction of
  biographic identities and provide themselves with symbolic schemes for present
  and future action. I further argue that Pentecostal story telling should be seen as
  a specific kind of social interaction, creating and unfolding religious realities to
  be inhabited by narrator and listener alike. I pursue this argument by examining
  different linguistic as well as non-linguistic strategies through which the listener
  is invited to project him or herself into the world of the story.

  Keywords Chile, conversion, identity, narratives, Pentecostalism