Pilgrimage to Popoyuapa
Catholic Renewal and Ethnic Performance in Neoliberal Nicaragua
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2986125 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Borland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 462 |
| Pages | 391-419 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaf.2003.0050 |
| OpenAlex | W1993662018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines the growth of an eight-day wagon pilgrimage to the festival of Jesus the Rescuer in Rivas, Nicaragua. Pilgrims' nostalgic desire converges with Parish priests' successful marketing of the religious image to create a "renewal" that is consonant with government assertions that Nicaragua is a Catholic nation. Yet the meaning of the event for wagon pilgrims remains rooted in their sense of indigenous difference, and their own practices continue to reflect a commitment to the popular Catholicism of the mayordomía system, upon which their indigenous identity is partly based. The different meanings that organizers, participants, and observers attribute to the pilgrimage demonstrate that such popular enactments are multivocal phenomena, neither inherently conservative nor automatically resistant to the social and cultural establishment
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Indigenous · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Pilgrimage · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies
The Festive State
The fiesta system and economic change
Contesting the sacred
Conceiving Sexuality
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
The Symbolism of Subordination
To Die in this Way
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Power and the Ritual Genres
Family Affairs
Christmas and Carnival on Saint Vincent
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places
Marimba
Tradition, Genuine or Spurious
Reciprocity, redistribution, and the transaction of value in the Mesoamerican fiesta
Post-Sandinista Ethnic Identities in Western Nicaragua
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |