Location
5B - Management Issues
Start Date
30-6-2017 2:30 PM
End Date
30-6-2017 4:00 PM
Description
A tradition on shrines inventories exist in Central Europe since the middle ages, in order to offer practical information to pilgrims, so they could get more graces along the way. These projects have been pursued until today, either by tourist agencies or by scholars trying to see an ample regional view of the shrines in a particular area (eg. The Netherlands by Post, et al., 1998; or Spain by William, C. 1990 and 1991). Here, I will present the results of a cartographic project to map shrines in the Western part of Mexico, showing how such an endeavour problematizes the notion of shrines, and sketch the new tendencies of pilgrimages and the use of holy places in Mexico.
Included in
Western Mexican shrines: mapping and categorizing holy places
5B - Management Issues
A tradition on shrines inventories exist in Central Europe since the middle ages, in order to offer practical information to pilgrims, so they could get more graces along the way. These projects have been pursued until today, either by tourist agencies or by scholars trying to see an ample regional view of the shrines in a particular area (eg. The Netherlands by Post, et al., 1998; or Spain by William, C. 1990 and 1991). Here, I will present the results of a cartographic project to map shrines in the Western part of Mexico, showing how such an endeavour problematizes the notion of shrines, and sketch the new tendencies of pilgrimages and the use of holy places in Mexico.