Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead
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...
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2014-05-01
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| description | 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 describe the manufacture of miraculous dead —folk saints— in ceme-teries, and the processes of «adoption» of Colombia’s violence victims of unknown dead citizens —called dead NNs—. These emerging cults connect with the experience of its prac-titioners 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» that enjoy a very good health. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e3904802847b4499aca8b99a2aa49c8e2022-12-21T21:59:27ZspaAntropólogos Iberoamericanos en RedAntropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red1695-97521578-97052014-05-01090211513810.11156/aibr.090202eEmerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted deadJuan Antonio Flores MartosEthnographically, 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 describe the manufacture of miraculous dead —folk saints— in ceme-teries, and the processes of «adoption» of Colombia’s violence victims of unknown dead citizens —called dead NNs—. These emerging cults connect with the experience of its prac-titioners 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» that enjoy a very good health.https://www.aibr.org/antropologia/netesp/numeros/0902/090202e.pdf |
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| title | Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead |
| title_full | Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead |
| title_fullStr | Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead |
| title_short | Emerging iconographies and patrimonized deaths in Latin America: Holy dead, miraculous dead and adopted dead |
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