Gabriela Vargas Cetina D. in Anthropology (McGill University, 1994). Professor-researcher C at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Member of SNII level III. She has conducted fieldwork in Yucatan with peasant families, with musicians and music producers, in indigenous reserves in Canada, with sheep and goat shepherds in Sardinia, Italy, with women artisans in Chiapas, and with musicians and band directors in Seville, Spain. He has published the monograph The Beautiful Politics of Music. Trova in Yucatán, Mexico (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017). She has served as president of The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2004-2008), secretary of the American Anthropological Association (2021-2024), and vice president of The International Association of American Studies (2021-Present). She was a Fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2006-2007).

Realidades socioculturales

The Senses of the Fair and the Fair of the Senses in Seville, Spain

  • Gabriela Vargas Cetina
  • Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz

En este artículo proponemos que la Feria de Abril en Sevilla, España, es una experiencia multisensorial, sinestésica y sinestética que reafirma la identidad sevillana y resalta las fronteras identitarias entre población local y visitantes, mientras subraya las diferencias sociales locales. Tomando en cuenta los trabajos de Paul Stoller y David Sutton, así como nuestro trabajo de campo en Sevilla, entre 2017 y 2025, describimos la experiencia sinestésica y sinestética de la Feria de Abril como dimensiones que invocan "lo sevillano". Argumentamos que el reconocimiento de la experiencia sensorial contribuye a un acercamiento antropológico complejo de la dimensión política de eventos locales.