Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico

Graziano, Frank

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790869.001.0001

2016

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199790869.001.0001

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Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico

Frank Graziano¹

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“…In this realm our work builds on the insights of Frank Graziano (2007Graziano ( , 2016)-although he does not engage digital devotion-and his analysis of the deeply personal narrative dynamics of Catholic votive practice. In our view, traditional petitionary and storytelling dimensions of traditional piety have colonized social media.…”

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Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico

Wright-Ríos,

Martínez-Don

2024

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At the crossroads of scholarship scrutinizing digital religion and pilgrimage, this article analyzes the use of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram by devotees of Our Lady of Juquila, a Marian image in Oaxaca, Mexico. It combines the close reading of content and descriptive online ethnography with web scraping and data analysis. The article sketches these platforms’ role in pious expression, virtual community building, pilgrimage group communication, and devotional marketing, tracking closely the intertwining of religion and commerce, particularly religious tourism promotion. The data reveal that Facebook serves as the most popular platform for Juquila’s devotees, thanks to its open, pro-sharing design and flexibility regarding group formation. As a result, it has become the essential hub of devotee expression. YouTube, thanks to its particular affordances, has become an ideal niche for narrating travel to Juquila’s shrine and a showcase of the networked nature of devotion as users borrow tools, tropes, and expressive techniques from many sources, religious and secular. Instagram is the least popular platform among devotees because its design is less open and amenable to group communication. It does, however, facilitate both smaller, more intimate community formation, as well as shallow but significant community building on popular public pages run by religious tourism promoters hosting attractive, easily sharable, free stockpiles of images, memes, and devotional slogans. In the end, social media use appears to be stoking pilgrimage in Mexico and setting the stage for significant cultural change in the future as new tools, emerging shared devotional aesthetics, and media logics reshape religious expression and devotee communication. It is also becoming an unparalleled historical archive of popular religious culture.

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Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico

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Martínez-Don

2024

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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“…Like photographs, they thus became objects that "could powerfully displace holy presence across space and time" (Graziano 2015) See also (Zysk 2017;Tambiah et al 2013). …”

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Traces of Traces: Time, Space, Objects, and the Forensic Turn in Photography

Lowe

2018

Humanities

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Images of atrocity are deeply problematic, in that they potentially create a tension between form and content and are often accused of re-victimization, aesthetization of suffering, compassion fatigue and exploitation. As an alternative, therefore, there is considerable potential in examining images associated with atrocity that do not depict the actual act of violence or the victim itself, but rather depict the material presence of the spaces and objects involved in such acts. The temporality of the photograph is also fluid in this type of approach. This paper considers the work of four photographers (Edmund Clark, Ashley Gilbertson, Shannon Jensen, and Fred Ramos) who have used a "forensic aesthetic" in their practice.Keywords: photography; documentary; photojournalism; forensics; material turn; forensic turn; time; temporality; ethics; witnessing; things; counter-forensics; chronotype Contact RelicsIts shoulders pinned to the door behind, squared off in an exaggerated expression of the form of the human body it is designed to cover, the stained and crumpled shirt hangs as if laid out by a servant for its owner to wear to a formal event (Figure 1). It appears as if a visage of its wearer, a stand-in for the actual presence of the human that it encased. The marks inscribed into its center coalesce into the schematic outline of eyes, a nose, and a mouth, taking on the form of the person who wore it, a symbolic representation of the shape of their body. However, this shirt is also a shroud; the marks in the center are inscribed by bullets, and the dark traces flowing from them are the stains of dried blood. The image has the passage of time imprinted into its surface and into its tonal values, with the white of sacrifice tainted by the dark streaks of blood. The history of the shirt can be imagined; how it was put on underneath a formal three-piece suit, how the bullets rented the fabric of the waistcoat and then the shirt, and how the life essence seeped out through them. Then, after this violent act, how the photographer pinned it carefully to the door to create a stage set upon which to document the artifact, creating a relic, with the marks of violence contact printed onto the material by the destruction of the life force of its owner.The forensic nature of this unsettling image gives it a haunting power over the imagination. For a fuller discussion of both the reign of Maximillian and the nature of firing squads in Mexican revolutionary history, see (Noble 2010, pp. 78-98). 3 François Aubert was a French painter and photographer who had immigrated to Mexico, and soon became the semiofficial photographer to the new Imperial court and to the city's middle classes. He evidently used his connections to attend the

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Not Just Counters: Clay Tokens and Ritual Materiality in the Ancient Near East

Palka

2020

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Miraculous Images and Votive Offerings in Mexico

Cited by 11 publications

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Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico

Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico

Traces of Traces: Time, Space, Objects, and the Forensic Turn in Photography

Not Just Counters: Clay Tokens and Ritual Materiality in the Ancient Near East

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