A Typical main street of the pilon village
During 1988 Abdel Hernandez San Juan developed an individual project of fieldwork inmersion in the village of pilon and its sorrounding montain villages, hernandez san juan, which stablished himself living there during 10 months proposed an innovative research methodology consisted about priorizing and focussing semiotic theory, understanded from its inside disciplinary boundaries, to know, study and research the village
This research method conjuntioned the science of semiotic (science of the signs) with sociology participant observation developing maps of pilon defined not according to its topographic territory, but according to everyday life quiotidian studies of intercorporal and intergestural bodies communitcations through the village, this study evolved a classification or categorialization of the village everyday life customs in a way seen as tipification of common sense activities using the public spaciality of the village by people dayle activities, a sociology of common sense tipications as expresed semiotically seen (wih the use of proxemic and cinesis studies) among the people habitad including both internals environments (families life styles) and outside, streets, parks and relevant places spatialities.
This cognitive maps of the villages was the basis to hernandez san juan developments of both its own social simbolic interactions with families and people who assigned meanings to his presence as scientific research as well as the hermeneutical undertanding of the culture according to understanding its phenomenology, including the use of the photography camera to inscribe and register his both interactions and dialogues, hernandez san juan explored triggers meaning performative ways to stimule situational interactions around his presence, permanence and science research stablishment in the village.
Hernandez San Juan fieldwork inmersion, while it used general information of the villages composition according to poblational data and funtional distribution of infraestructure items focussed in the human being habitad and situational forms of ideosincratic expresions and as such evolutioned to be a research of people culture with accent in the study of both quotidian habits and everyday life situational communication and religion, including hernandez san juan visits to montain villages such as el mamey, caridad de mota, boniato and huevo frito, all this evolutioned to be a cultural anthropology and ethnography research on people religions such as cristian religions, espiritismo de cordon, espiritismo de mesa and regla de ocha or regional neologisms of yoruba religion such as santeria.
About Pilon Religions
Upcoming
About Niqueros Temple of espiritismo de cordon The orient Star
Current evolution of The Orient Star temple and joseito legacy both in the region as well as in havana, upcoming vist to the havana temple at loma blanca entailed with joseito
Direct photographies made by Abdel Hernandez San Juan and or about and inmersioned under Abdel fieldwork are currently upcoming to be printed and digitalized