"THE JUMPING AT 02.45!": AN ESTABLISHED OR ATEMPORAL RITUAL? RITUAL CHANGES DURING THE START OF HONOR PROCESSING THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCK
Keywords:
pilgrimage, locality, ritual transformationsAbstract
The culminating point of the yearly pilgrimage in honor of the Virgin Mary in the Andalusian hamlet of El Rocío takes place when the local men jump over the altar fence and violently carry the statue out of the church, the so-called ‘salto a la reja’. The paper explores the transformations that underwent this act during the last fifty years. It argues that in this process not only a violently and authority threatening revolt was canalized into a harmless ritual, but that at the same time this ‘novel’ ritual became to represent a new-found ‘timeless’ authenticity within the pilgrimage. As such, the local men, fiercely defending their ‘local’ rights, slowly developed into a symbol in themselves, trapped in an expanding pilgrimage wherein experiencing ‘locality’ might become more important than the devotion towards ‘their’ Virgin.
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