Autori
Amiotte-Suchet, Laurent
Grandjean, Alexandre

Titolo
Messinscene di un'eterotopia cattolica. Etnografia di un pellegrinaggio a Lourdes
Periodico
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 463 - Pagina finale: 488

This paper focuses on a three-year study of Swiss French-speaking pilgrimages toOur Mother of Lourdes in southern France. We give special attention to the site ofthe pilgrimage itself, seen as constituting an ensemble of spatiality set on sceneryso to establish and enable an alternative social order that we would qualify as "heterotopical"in the continuity of Michel Foucault's and later on Kevin Hetherington'suse of the concept. We shall consider how such spaces are being worked out by institutionaland historical contingencies and especially how several urbanistic, scenicand discursive devices perform in particular on pilgrims in order to incorporatethem into a «heterotopy» and make them act as if they were in an alternative socialorder. This paper also seeks to recontextualize this «alternative social space» thatsets itself in contrast to a common world in which preachers and pilgrims figure assecularized and therefore, from an emic point of view, dehumanized. In this way,the Lourdes pilgrimage represents a case study of a militant time-space in whichCatholic ethics and exemplarity are exposed for the direct observation and experienceof the pilgrims.



SICI: 1973-3194(2013)3<463:MDUCED>2.0.ZU;2-3
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