...Evelyn Picon Garfield Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home . By Echevarría Roberto González . Ithaca , 1977 . Cornell University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 307 . Cloth. Copyright 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home...

...Julian Nava Strangers—then Neighbors: From Pilgrims to Puerto Bicans . By Senior Clarence . New York , 1961 . Freedom Books . The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith . Illustrations. Appendix. Bibliography . Pp. vii , 88 . Paper . $0.95 . Copyright 1961 by Duke...

...Archibald R. Lewis The Road to Santiago. Pilgrims of St. James . By Starkie Walter . Berkeley , 1957 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Map. Index . Pp. x , 339 . $5.00 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Those of us who have long admired both...

...R. Tom Zuidema Pilgrims of the Andes: Regional Cults in Cusco . By Sallnow Michael J. . Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press , 1987 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index , xiii , 351 pp. Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright...

...T. Lynn Smith Copyright 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Pilgrims in Paraguay . By Fretz Joseph Winfield . ( Scottdale : Mennonite Publishing House , 1953 . Pp. xv , 247 . Maps, illustra­tions, charts, appendix, bibliography, index . $2.75 .) ...

...Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara Abstract In 1711, the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to a Maya couple in the small town of Santa Marta, before wondrously transforming into a miraculous image that began to draw pilgrims from across highland Chiapas. Presuming fraud, church officials confiscated the image...

... Brazil offers ethnographic insight into the material culture of folk Catholicism by exploring the social life of the milagres and the pilgrims who deliver them to the famous shrine to St. Francis of Assisi, located in the town of Canindé, Ceará, about three hours inland from Fortaleza. Trained largely...

... concerns were to gain full restitution as a priest and to protect the interests of his town and of the pilgrims from throughout the backlands who flocked into the “New Jerusalem” each year to receive his blessing. As his fame and following grew, Padre Cícero became the strongest “coronel” in northeastern...

... tourists : the right word is pilgrims.” In reality, IEC participants could be both. 68 The church reinforced the link between religion and tourism by forming a Pilgrim Assistance Commission to train more than five hundred guides, defined as “persons speaking foreign languages who are able to offer...

... of historic landmarks and modern-day pilgrims. Her own written essay is a personal account of the journey. The text and photographs provide a concise yet panoramic view of a devotion that became a leitmotiv of Spanish history and the conquest. They also bring out Santiago's legacy in the New World, his...

... Mexico and Arizona almost a quarter century before the Pilgrims landed in New England. America’s Hispanics had a rich and vibrant cultural tradition of seventeenth-century Spanish provenance. When New Mexicans in the 1930s sang ballads, they sang of “How Victoriously El Cid Returns from the Battles...

... 1970s, but economic disorder and violence in the Michoacán state elections and elsewhere in Mexico beginning in the late 1970s greatly reduced that trend. Tourism revived in the late 1970s and 1980s through visits by Mexican pilgrims and vacationers. Pátzcuaro’s population grew to 17,300 in 1970...

... play in the local and regional economy. Elites could create and use pilgrim centers and their necessary markets to maintain their own economic and political prosperity. Indeed, such centers became important in not only creating but also maintaining sociopolitical identity. While examining...

... (or “co-performatively witnessed”) each pilgrimage and she deftly records the women’s experiences, both sacred and secular. The pilgrims embody the interplay between traditional and modern values and practices in Mexico, especially in women’s lives. Many women, for example, participate in the annual...

... in an introductory chapter with dramatis personae Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland (whose travels let Chasteen discuss key Spanish colonial centers in New Spain, New Granada, and Cuba) and imperial pilgrim Félix de Azara (whose story offers insight into frontier zones of Brazil and Argentina). Introducing...

... of a still active copper mine, she, like generations of pilgrims before her, scanned the tops of the surrounding hills to locate the legendary shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad. By this time, the Cuban people had come to embrace El Cobre’s Marian sanctuary as a kind of sacred national monument. Yet...

... in an elegant cape and gown, a plumed, floppy hat atop his curly hair, with common, dusty, worn sandals on his feet. The sandals are important because they identify him as a wanderer, a pilgrim, with ties to the humble and poor. In his left hand the Child holds a crooked staff, a water gourd hanging from...

... summaries of obscure novels, and rather than analyzing the ideologies under examination, Stavans often simply repeats them. A chapter called “A New Era of Distant Neighbors” is typical in this regard. According to Stavans, the Pilgrims of New England, who dreamed of a New Israel governed by “the manners...

... vessels that arrived in Brazil during the period under consideration, all of which came to Brazilian ports seeking food and water and in many cases an opportunity to make repairs, is summarized in the following pages. The desired permission was freely given in every instance but one, that of the Pilgrim...

... that there is more to a theology and history of miraculous images in Mexico that the Virgin of Guadalupe— “there are a select number of images, mainly, but not invariably of the Virgin, which attract pilgrims” (p. 365)—but does not enter this larger field with more than a passing nod in the direction of our Lady...