Book: La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami
BIO
Laurie Frederik Meer is an anthropologist by training and an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Maryland. She writes and teaches about contemporary Cuba, Latin America, political performance, and national identity.
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EDITORIAL REMARKS
ESSAYS
La religiosidad peregrina de los jaliscienses: vírgenes viajeras, apariciones en los no lugares y santos polleros
by Renée de la Torre (Ciesas Occidente)
Bailar con fe: Folkloric Devotional Practice in a Bolivian Immigrant Community
by Alicia Carmona (NYU)
Santa María de la Antigua: un culto mariano entre Sevilla y el Darién
by Paolo Vignolo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
From Bulls to Music: Social, Religious, and Economic Aspects of a Pilgrimage to Nuestra Señora, La Vírgen de Altagracia
by Angelina Tallaj (CUNY)
All Roads Lead to Yemayá: Transformative Trajectories in the Procession at Regla
by Carrie Viarnes (UCLA)
Points of View
Two Virgins that Meet on the Same Path: A conversation about devotion, neighbors and storytelling
by Pedro Lasch, Jean Franco & Renato Rosaldo (UCLA)
Featured Presentations
Reports from the Field
To Heaven Through the Streets of Guatemala City: the Processions of the Virgin of the Assumption
by Catherine Reiland (NYU)
Rondando la fiesta: los no-lugares y la religiosidad popular en Antofagasta, Chile
by Katherine Fritis Lattus (Universidad Bolivariana de Chile)
La Virgen de la Asunción viaja a California: migrantes mexicanos y construcción de circuitos simbólicos y emocionales transnacionales
by Shinji Hirai (UAM Ixtapalapa)
Urqupiña Travels: A meditation on the Virgin Mary, displacement, and agency
by Tobias Reu (NYU)
Activism
Del arte al activismo: una historia de imágenes en movimiento
by Maria Rosa Jijon (Asociación Candelaria de Mujeres Inmigrantes)
Reviews
Book: Frank Graziano. Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America.
by Peter Savastano (Seton Hall University)
Book: Gisela Cánepa K. y María Eugenia Ulfe, eds. Mirando la esfera pública desde la cultura en el Perú.
by Ulla Berg (Rutgers University)
Book: Miguel A. De la Torre. La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami
by Laurie Frederik Meer (University of Maryland)
Performance: Jesusa Rodríguez. Primero Sueño.
by Leo Cabranes Grant (University of California Santa Barbara)
Humor
Sanctuary Under Stress
by Diana Raznovich
