Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaA foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina
The Bolivian community in Argentina celebrates the Virgin of Copacabana by travelling to the city of Luján, the country’s largest center of pilgrimage. During the first weekend of August, the faithful engage in a tradition that dates back over 60 years. The circulation of multiple symbols is linked...
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Instituto de Estudios Internacionales
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| description | The Bolivian community in Argentina celebrates the Virgin of Copacabana by travelling to the city of Luján, the country’s largest center of pilgrimage. During the first weekend of August, the faithful engage in a tradition that dates back over 60 years. The circulation of multiple symbols is linked to identity claims and the reaffirmation of this community, as well as their music and dance. All of these elements reveal a sense of belonging that is expressed through various corporal practices. The combination of these practices distinguishes this celebration from the other practices that have developed in this city over the years. However, the practice of calling it a ‘Bolivian pilgrimage’ implies a representation of identity and religious ritual that does not reflect the ‘hybridity’ of this phenomenon. In fact, the symbols, practices and participants go beyond the characterization of this manifestation as being ‘foreign’. The aim of this article is thus to explore and analyze the transcultural and transmedial identity strategies in the 'mobile setting' of the pilgrimage. The authors consider how such discourses, symbols and practices are expressed and deployed and de-territorialized and re-territorialized in a heterotopic space-movement. The result is an analysis that questions the boundaries between sacred and profane spaces, re-actualizing in the ritual those aspects of historical memory that allow us to re-signify the links between identity and territory. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO810202022-03-22T15:21:07Z A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina ¿Una peregrinación extranjera? Espacialidad y estrategias identitarias del colectivo boliviano en Argentina Dawidiuk, Carlos Luciano Vogel, Carolina pilgrimage urban space cultural identity peregrinación espacio urbano identidad cultural The Bolivian community in Argentina celebrates the Virgin of Copacabana by travelling to the city of Luján, the country’s largest center of pilgrimage. During the first weekend of August, the faithful engage in a tradition that dates back over 60 years. The circulation of multiple symbols is linked to identity claims and the reaffirmation of this community, as well as their music and dance. All of these elements reveal a sense of belonging that is expressed through various corporal practices. The combination of these practices distinguishes this celebration from the other practices that have developed in this city over the years. However, the practice of calling it a ‘Bolivian pilgrimage’ implies a representation of identity and religious ritual that does not reflect the ‘hybridity’ of this phenomenon. In fact, the symbols, practices and participants go beyond the characterization of this manifestation as being ‘foreign’. The aim of this article is thus to explore and analyze the transcultural and transmedial identity strategies in the 'mobile setting' of the pilgrimage. The authors consider how such discourses, symbols and practices are expressed and deployed and de-territorialized and re-territorialized in a heterotopic space-movement. The result is an analysis that questions the boundaries between sacred and profane spaces, re-actualizing in the ritual those aspects of historical memory that allow us to re-signify the links between identity and territory. La colectividad boliviana en Argentina celebra a la Virgen de Copacabana movilizándose hacia la ciudad de Luján, el centro de peregrinación más grande del país, cada primer fin de semana del mes de agosto desde hace más de sesenta años. La circulación de múltiples símbolos de reivindicación y reafirmación identitarias de este colectivo, como así también sus músicas y danzas, que manifiestan mediante diversas prácticas corporales esta pertenencia, imprimen a esta celebración un carácter distintivo respecto a otras manifestaciones que históricamente han tenido como epicentro a esta ciudad. Pero su denominación como “peregrinación boliviana” entraña una representación identitaria y del ritual religioso que no da cuenta de la hibridez de este fenómeno, en el que tanto los símbolos, las prácticas y los participantes exceden la caracterización de esta manifestación como extranjera. Así, nos proponemos indagar y analizar las estrategias identitarias transculturales y transmediales en el escenario móvil de la peregrinación, los modos en que se articulan y despliegan esos discursos –símbolos y prácticas desterritorializados y reterritorializados en un espacio-movimiento heterotópico– que interpelan los límites entre los espacios sagrados y profanos reactualizando en el ritual aspectos de la memoria histórica que permiten resignificar los vínculos entre la identidad y el territorio. 2020-07-13 2022-03-22T15:21:07Z 2022-03-22T15:21:07Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://www.sisomosamericanos.cl/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/956 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/81020 spa https://www.sisomosamericanos.cl/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/956/657 Derechos de autor 2020 Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos application/pdf Instituto de Estudios Internacionales Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos; Vol. 20 Núm. 1 (2020): Si Somos Americanos. Revistas de Estudios Transfronterizos; 123-151 Si Somos Americanos. Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos; Vol. 20 No. 1 (2020): Si Somos Americanos. Revistas de Estudios Transfronterizos; 123-151 0719-0948 0718-2910 |
| spellingShingle | pilgrimage urban space cultural identity peregrinación espacio urbano identidad cultural Dawidiuk, Carlos Luciano Vogel, Carolina A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina |
| title | A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina |
| title_full | A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina |
| title_fullStr | A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina |
| title_short | A foreign pilgrimage? Spatiality and identity strategies of the Bolivian community in Argentina |
| title_sort | foreign pilgrimage? spatiality and identity strategies of the bolivian community in argentina |
| topic | pilgrimage urban space cultural identity peregrinación espacio urbano identidad cultural |
| url | https://www.sisomosamericanos.cl/index.php/sisomosamericanos/article/view/956 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/81020 |