Frank Graziano
Biographic Data
| ID | 807884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Graziano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Graziano |
| SIGNATURE | GRAZIANO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Petitionary Devotion: Folk Saints and Miraculous Images in Spanish America
Votive practice in the Americas has Indigenous, Christian, and syncretic origins that contribute to the diversity of offerings, as do social class, gender, age, and region. Petitionary devotion is structured by an exchange that the votary proposes to a folk saint or miraculous image. The offerings that votaries promise are based on the presumption that folk saints and miraculous images, because they are like us, value what we value
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico is based on fieldwork at several shrines and basilicas and is supported by research in a vast, interdisciplinary body of previous scholarship. The analysis is primarily in material religion and the psychology of religion. The study is written in two voices, one analytical and the other narrative, that alternate throughout the book. The focus is on miracles in everyday life; miraculous images, meani…
Votive Exchange in Mexican Petitionary Devotion
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrank GrazianoFrank Graziano is John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His contribution to this forum is derived from his recently completed book Miracles, Miraculous Images, and Votive Offerings in Mexico (Oxford University Press, December 2015)
Undocumented Dominican Migration
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic poverty. The book provides in-depth treatment of decision-making, experiences at sea, migrant smuggling operations, and U.S. border enforcement. It…
Ground‐penetrating radar investigations into the construction techniques of the Concordia Temple (Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)
Over the past decade, ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) has been recognized as being particularly well adapted to the non‐destructive survey of archaeological sites. The present work discusses such an application of the GPR to the study of the foundation geometry of the Concordia Temple in Agrigento (Sicily, southern Italy). Radar data were collected using a pulse EKKO 1000 unit (Sensors and Software, Inc.) with 225 MHz antennae. The GPR data show a…
San La Muerte
This chapter explores the devotion to San La Muerte (St. Death) in northeastern Argentina. It explains the evolution of San La Muerte from a Guaraní-Christian amulet to a folk saint, and examines contemporary devotion in Corrientes and Chaco provinces.
Cultures of Devotion: Folk saints of Spanish America
This book presents an interpretive overview of folk saint devotions in the Spanish-speaking Americas. The chapters are dedicated to folk saints from Argentina, Mexico, and Peru: Difunta Correa, Gaucho Gil, Niño Compadrito, Niño Fidencio, San La Muerte, and Sarita Colonia. The introduction and conclusion treat themes such as tragic death, curanderos (healers), miracles, the maintenance and growth of devotions, virginity and sexuality, myth formati…
Why Dominicans Migrate: The Complex of Factors Conducive to Undocumented Maritime Migration
This interpretive ethnography draws on interviews with migrants, smugglers, and border-enforcement personnel to provide a condensed overview of the multiple factors conducive to undocumented maritime migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. The article explores the dynamic interactions of these economic, social, cultural, historical, political, military, religious, family, and personal factors as components of a causal composite. It …
"Divine Violence. Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War
Divine Violence. Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine 'Dirty War
Divine Violence: "Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War
Silvio in the Rose Garden
Cultures of Devotion: Folk saints of Spanish America
This book presents an interpretive overview of folk saint devotions in the Spanish-speaking Americas. The chapters are dedicated to folk saints from Argentina, Mexico, and Peru: Difunta Correa, Gaucho Gil, Niño Compadrito, Niño Fidencio, San La Muerte, and Sarita Colonia. The introduction and conclusion treat themes such as tragic death, curanderos (healers), miracles, the maintenance and growth of devotions, virginity and sexuality, myth formati…
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico is based on fieldwork at several shrines and basilicas and is supported by research in a vast, interdisciplinary body of previous scholarship. The analysis is primarily in material religion and the psychology of religion. The study is written in two voices, one analytical and the other narrative, that alternate throughout the book. The focus is on miracles in everyday life; miraculous images, meani…
Divine Violence: "Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War
Ground‐penetrating radar investigations into the construction techniques of the Concordia Temple (Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)
Over the past decade, ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) has been recognized as being particularly well adapted to the non‐destructive survey of archaeological sites. The present work discusses such an application of the GPR to the study of the foundation geometry of the Concordia Temple in Agrigento (Sicily, southern Italy). Radar data were collected using a pulse EKKO 1000 unit (Sensors and Software, Inc.) with 225 MHz antennae. The GPR data show a…
Silvio in the Rose Garden
Divine Violence. Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine 'Dirty War
Divine Violence: "Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War
"Divine Violence. Spectacle, Psychosexuality, and Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War
San La Muerte
This chapter explores the devotion to San La Muerte (St. Death) in northeastern Argentina. It explains the evolution of San La Muerte from a Guaraní-Christian amulet to a folk saint, and examines contemporary devotion in Corrientes and Chaco provinces.
Cultures of Devotion: Folk saints of Spanish America
This book presents an interpretive overview of folk saint devotions in the Spanish-speaking Americas. The chapters are dedicated to folk saints from Argentina, Mexico, and Peru: Difunta Correa, Gaucho Gil, Niño Compadrito, Niño Fidencio, San La Muerte, and Sarita Colonia. The introduction and conclusion treat themes such as tragic death, curanderos (healers), miracles, the maintenance and growth of devotions, virginity and sexuality, myth formati…
Why Dominicans Migrate: The Complex of Factors Conducive to Undocumented Maritime Migration
This interpretive ethnography draws on interviews with migrants, smugglers, and border-enforcement personnel to provide a condensed overview of the multiple factors conducive to undocumented maritime migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. The article explores the dynamic interactions of these economic, social, cultural, historical, political, military, religious, family, and personal factors as components of a causal composite. It …
Ground‐penetrating radar investigations into the construction techniques of the Concordia Temple (Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)
Over the past decade, ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) has been recognized as being particularly well adapted to the non‐destructive survey of archaeological sites. The present work discusses such an application of the GPR to the study of the foundation geometry of the Concordia Temple in Agrigento (Sicily, southern Italy). Radar data were collected using a pulse EKKO 1000 unit (Sensors and Software, Inc.) with 225 MHz antennae. The GPR data show a…
Undocumented Dominican Migration
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic poverty. The book provides in-depth treatment of decision-making, experiences at sea, migrant smuggling operations, and U.S. border enforcement. It…
Votive Exchange in Mexican Petitionary Devotion
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrank GrazianoFrank Graziano is John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. His contribution to this forum is derived from his recently completed book Miracles, Miraculous Images, and Votive Offerings in Mexico (Oxford University Press, December 2015)
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico
Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico is based on fieldwork at several shrines and basilicas and is supported by research in a vast, interdisciplinary body of previous scholarship. The analysis is primarily in material religion and the psychology of religion. The study is written in two voices, one analytical and the other narrative, that alternate throughout the book. The focus is on miracles in everyday life; miraculous images, meani…
Petitionary Devotion: Folk Saints and Miraculous Images in Spanish America
Votive practice in the Americas has Indigenous, Christian, and syncretic origins that contribute to the diversity of offerings, as do social class, gender, age, and region. Petitionary devotion is structured by an exchange that the votary proposes to a folk saint or miraculous image. The offerings that votaries promise are based on the presumption that folk saints and miraculous images, because they are like us, value what we value
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