Iconografías emergentes y muertes patrimonializadas en América Latina. Santa Muerte, muertos milagros y muertos adoptados
Ethnographically, I explore imaginaries in Latin American societies where death has a role and relevant agency; as well as its connection to some figures and emerging cults that claim to embody death as a self possession and heritage. From the Santa Muerte in Mexico, I will make a comparison to the...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2014 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| Repository: | RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/6900 |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.11156/aibr.090202 http://hdl.handle.net/10578/6900 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Patrimonio cultural Cultos emergentes Santa Muerte Muertos milagrosos |
| Summary: | Ethnographically, I explore imaginaries in Latin American societies where death has a role and relevant agency; as well as its connection to some figures and emerging cults that claim to embody death as a self possession and heritage. From the Santa Muerte in Mexico, I will make a comparison to the processes of cultural patrimonialization of the death in other American societies. I focus the manufacture of miraculous dead –folk saints– in cemeteries, and the processes of “adoption” of Colombia’s violence victims of unknown dead citizens –called dead NNs–. These emerging cults connected with the experience of its practitioners to take control of their lives in a precarious state of social vulnerability, homeless state institutions and formal structures. These are considered as “walking dead” who enjoy a very good health. |
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