Pilgrimage in Latin America

by N. Ross Crumine, Alan Morinis

Overview

In every region of Latin America, there are sacred shrines that draw tens of thousands of pilgrims. At present, most of these pilgrimages are overtly Catholic, but the roots of the contemporary practice are numerous: European Christian, indigenous pre-Columbian, African slave, and other religious traditions have all contributed to Latin American pilgrimage. This book explores the historical development, range of diversity, and the structure and impacts of this widespread religious practice.

This volume, among the first to focus on pilgrimage in Latin America in general, creates a general framework for understanding Latin American pilgrimage. Although the contributors' focus is predominantly anthropological, analytical perspectives are drawn from numerous disciplines, including archaeology, geography, and religious and literary history. This diversity reflects the fact that pilgrimage is a multifaceted institution that incorporates geographical, social, cultural, religious, historical, literary, architectural, artistic, and other dimensions. It is this complexity that is responsible for the previous general neglect of the study of pilgrimage by scholars. The interdisciplinary collaboration that characterizes this volume is one of the most sensible ways to investigate pilgrimages. All of the essays in this book treat pilgrims, the pilgrimage center, the ritual performances, and the audience as major components, and examine the interrelationships among these dimensions. This volume will interest anthropologists, sociologists of religion, and others interested in aspects of religious practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313261107
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/07/1991
Series:	Contributions to the Study of Anthropology , #4
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.12(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

N. ROSS CRUMRINE is Full-Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He has written numerous papers and articles on Latin American religious practices and Indian culture for scholarly jourbanals.

ALAN MORINIS is a filmmaker in Canada and is currently editing a collection entitled Sacred Jourbaneys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Luis Millones
Introduction
La Peregrinación: The Latin American Pilgrimage by Alan Morinis and N. Ross Crumrine
The European Roots of Latin American Pilgrimage by Mary Lee Nolan
Middle America
Do-It-Yourself Religion: The Diffusion of Folk Catholicism on Mexico's Northern Frontier 1821-1846 by Henry F. Dobyns
Fiestas and Exchange Pilgrimages: The Yorem Pahko and Mayo Identity, Northwest Mexico by N. Ross Crumrine
Pilgrimage and Shrine: Religious Practices among the Otomi of Huixquilican, Mexico by H.R. Harvey
Social Structure in Pilgrimage and Prayer: Tzeltales as Lords and Servants by Walter Randolph Adams
Pilgrimage as Cyclical Process: The Unending Pilgrimage of the Holy Cross of the Quintana Roo Maya by Herman W. Konrad
The Politics of Pilgrimage: The Black Christ of Esquipulas by Carl Kendall
Through the Fields to Amatitlán by Leslie Ellen Straub. O.P.
South America
The Literature of Pilgrimage: Present-day Miracle Stories from Northeast Brazil by Candace Slater
Pilgrimages to Sorte in the Cult of Maria Lionza in Venezuela by Angelina Pollak-Eltz
The Ethnography and Archaeology of Two Andean Pilgrimage Centers by Helaine Silverman
Pilgrim's Progress: The Emergence of Secular Authority in a Traditional Andean Pilgrimage by James M. Vreeland, Jr.
Locational Symbolism: The Fiesta de los Reyes o del Niño in Northern Peru by Richard P. Schaedel
A Pilgrimage Fiesta: Easter Week Ritual at Catacaos, Piura, Peru by N. Ross Crumrine
Dual Cosmology and Ethnic Division in an Andean Pilgrimage Cult by Micheal J. Sallnow
Rituals of Movement, Rites of Transformation: Pilgrimage and Dance in the Highlands of Cuzco, Peru by Deborah A. Poole
Mythic Andean Discourse and Pilgrimages by Henrique Urbano
Conclusion
Discussion and Conclusions: Agrarian Conflict and Pilgrimage by Frans J. Schryer
References
Index