Devociones marianas en la ciudad de San Carlos de Bariloche (Argentina)

Abstract

The differentlocalMarian devotionsbuildsacred spaces.There,the dynamics ofcollective memory, appels from his narrative devotions to social fragmentation and the alluvial migration of Barilochecity.Thesedevotionsare transformed into local social symbols. From there, they transmit the visibilization of the social conflicts of the diferents urban sectors through rituals and pilgrimages, drawing a territory that intersects and becomes fragmented in every devotional construction. The cultural practice of these Marian devotion generated and generate identities. They also build territories that make visible the social fragmentation of Bariloche city. We have identified two groups: which have been brought by the Latin American migration, and the others which we we call properly “barilochenses”. In the first case, we analyze the migrant virgins: the Virgen of the Paraguayans (Caacupé) and the Virgen of Chileans (Del Carmen). In the second case, we have the “Virgen de las Nieves”, patron of the Diocese of Bariloche and the Virgin of Nahuel Huapi, the patron of Bariloche city.