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Traveling Virgins
BIO
Alyshia Gálvez is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Lehman College/City University of New York. She is a cultural anthropologist (PhD, NYU 2004) whose work focuses on the efforts by Mexican immigrants in New York City to achieve the rights of citizenship. Her book manuscript is entitled In the Name of Guadalupe: Religion, Politics and Citizenship among Mexicans in New York, and a volume she edited, Performing Religion in the Americas: Media, Politics and Devotion in the 21st Century (Berg/Seagull 2007) has just been released. She is currently conducting a new research project, an intervention into the so-called “Hispanic birthweight paradox,” examining the experiences of Mexican women with New York’s public healthcare system.
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BIO
José Carlos Luque Brazán is a Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México who specializes in migration, citizenship, and transnationalism. His publications include the following articles and book chapters: "La migración política peruana y sus organizaciones en la ‘Lima chica’. El caso de Santiago de Chile," published in ¿Invisibles? Migrantes internacionales en la escena política. Cecilia Imaz (coord.) Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2007); and "Asociaciones políticas de inmigrantes peruanos y la ‘Lima Chica’ en Santiago de Chile," published in Migraciones Internacionales (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), Vol. 4, No. 2 (July-December 2007).
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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
