FU Berlin Digitale Dissertation
Ana Teresa Lecaros-Terry : The Pilgrim of Senor de Muruhuay Raum, Kult und Identität in den Anden Los peregrinos del Senor de Muruhuay
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Abstract   This dissertation explores the social and cultural significance of the Andean pilgrimage. Pilgrimages are in the Andes an extended phenomenon which conveyed not only religious but also social meanings. They are fascinating occasions where the interaction of the collective and individual dimensions can be realised in a clear way. This thesis aims to understand the links between the personal action and the construction of large social formations. Through the analytical treatment of space, ritual and believe the pilgrimage emerges as an expression of an Andean way of think and act in which the space, the society and the cult are interrelated elements. It is argued that the territory is identified with a certain divinity and the population that lives there constructs its identity in relation to the space and the specific tutelary divinity. The ethnographical sample for this dissertation is the pilgrimage of the Lord of Muruhuay, whose shrine is located in the Province of Tarma. Tarma is a region in the central Andes of Peru located close to the large cities of Lima and Huancayo, the important mines of La Oroya and Pasco and the forest region. The inhabitants of Tarma are used to move themselves between these places since the prehispanic time. Nowadays, there exist important colonies of people from Tarma in the US and in Canada. This spatial fluency of the pilgrims are considered as a main element of the analysis of the pilgrimage. The dissertation is divided in three main sections. The first is called "The Lord and his Shrine" and deals with the description and analysis of the different aspects, the divinity and its place can be examined under, such as mythology, spatial organisation, religious belief, temporal dimension. Because of methodological reasons, the sections was subdivided in two chapters, the first is concerned with the attributes of the Lord of Muruhuay and the second with the character of the shrine. The second section is formed by one chapter, which is an historical account of the Tarma region that should serve to the understanding of the characteristics of the current society and culture of Tarma and therefore of the pilgrimage. The third section is called "Pilgrims? Gazes" and presents four different "gazes" to the pilgrimage, combining individual and collective perspectives. The first of all (chapter four) is an approach to the role and significance that the Lord of Muruhuay and his cult have in the daily life of the believers. Chapter five is about the social meanings that conveys the temporal organisation of the pilgrimage. The sixth Chapter is dedicated to the ritual dance of the Chonguinada. The dance embodies multiple meanings and is used actively and consciously by the actors as a vehicle of expression for either hegemonic or contra-hegemonic discourses. The last chapter explores the festive dimension of the pilgrimage and suggests a way in which the characteristic festival "excesses" can be understand within the phenomenon of the pilgrimage.

Table of Contents Download the whole PhDthesis as a zip-tar file or as zip-File For download in PDF format click the chapter title Titelblatt Introducción PARTE 1: EL SEÑOR Y SU SANTUARIO Capítulo 1 El Santuario 1.1 Historia del santuario 1.2 Mitología 1.3 Ritual básico 1.4 La organización espacial del santuario 1.5 La dimensión temporal Capítulo 2 El Señor de Muruhuay 2.1 La naturaleza del Señor 2.2 Milagros y ofrendas: el modelo del intercambio en la peregrinación 2.3 El sistema de parentesco del Señor de Muruhuay INTERMEDIO CONTEXTUAL Capítulo 3 Tarma, Tapo y sus redes, el ciclo ritual 3.1 La historia regional 3.2 El pueblo de Tapo 3.3 El calendario festivo PARTE 2: VISIONES DE LOS PEREGRINOS Capítulo 4 Cuando los peregrinos no lo son 4.1 Las historias 4.2 Lectura de los casos 4.3 Un padre cotidiano Capítulo 5 El Calendario 5.1 El calendario de Mayo 5.2 La peregrinación fuera de Muruhuay. La expansión del culto del Señor 5.3 Muruhuay: un estrado regional Capítulo 6 La danza de la Chonguinada 6.1 Los movimientos de los chonguinos 6.2 Revisión de las propuestas sobre danzas 6.3 La chonguinada en sus varios aspectos 6.4 El poder de los símbolos Capítulo 7 La dimensión festiva 7.1 Las fiestas 7.2 Las impresiones Conclusiones Bibliografía Zusammenfassung

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Online available:	http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2001/12/indexe.html
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Keywords:	pilgrimage, Andes, shrine, region, religiosity
DNB-Sachgruppe:	12 Christliche Religion
Date of disputation:	23-Jan-2001
PhDThesis from:	Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin
First Referee:	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Golte
Second Referee:	Prof. Dr. Bruno Schlegelberger
Third Referee:	Prof. Dr. Egon Renner, Prof. Dr. Ursula Thiemer-Sachse, Dr. Jürgen Gabbert
Contact (Author):	atlecaros@terra.com.pe
Contact (Advisor):	golte@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Date created:	02-Feb-2001
Date available:	05-Feb-2001

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