Labyrinthes dans le désert. Deux pèlerinages dans le nord-ouest mexicain
Labyrinths in the desert. Two pilgrimages in the Northwest of Mexico. Walking pilgrimages through the Mexican desert allow another way to apprehend space. These differe in essence from the traditional Mesoamerican pilgrimages, which have a landscape cartography with defined paths that almost never c...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/11376 |
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| Summary: | Labyrinths in the desert. Two pilgrimages in the Northwest of Mexico. Walking pilgrimages through the Mexican desert allow another way to apprehend space. These differe in essence from the traditional Mesoamerican pilgrimages, which have a landscape cartography with defined paths that almost never change. The Papago tribes of Sonora, Mexico, and Arizona, USA, make a walking pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of San Francisco Javier at Magdalena de Kino and the Mestizo pilgrims from Villa de Cos in Zacatecas, visit the sacred image of San Francisco at Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi. Both pilgrimages include rituals along the route associated to places, cactus and animals thought of as dangerous. No identification of these places sites is previously defined : they are fortuitously recognized by the pilgrims as they discover them, along the walk. These ways to apprehend the space and the rituals, elevate the human body to a special state of being, along with the image of the Saint, associated to the memory and knowledge about ancestors, which allow us to think about them and the notion of a labyrinth. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |