The Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies presents the 2015-16 Andrew Norman Lecture, co-sponsored by the Religion Department and the Paul Frederick Sheffer Memorial Endowment for Roman Catholic Studies.
BY DAVID CARRASCO
AS MIGRANT MOTHER AND SACRED BUNDLE
SACRED ICON, SACRED HILL:
LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 • 7 p.m.Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room, 825 N. Cascade Ave. Free and open to the public.For more information, please call (719) 389-6334 or e-mail [email protected].
David Carrasco, Mexican-American historian of religions, will give an
illustrated lecture on two types of Mexican sacrality — the ubiquitous
image of La Virgen de Guadalupe and the sacred place of Tepeyac
where her apparitions first occurred. Together, the sacred icon and
the sacred hill provide a religious orientation for Mexicans and many
Latinos, including migrants moving across borders from home-place to
strange-place. Using his ‘ensemble approach’ Carrasco interprets La
Morenita as a migrant mother and sacred bundle whose movements
created a ritual landscape and ethnic map for future pilgrims and
long-distance travelers.David Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin
America at the Harvard Divinity School; he has a joint appointment
with the Harvard Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences. He is the director of the Raphael J. and Fletcher Lee
Moses Mesoamerican Archive, which has helped organize new
knowledge about the religions and cultures of Mesoamerica. He is
also the author and editor of over 15 books, including the award-
winning “Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire” and “Cave, City,
and Eagle’s Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de
Cuauhtinchan #2.”
