Lucha libre videos
The Fighting Cholitas This documentary showcased a unique community of Bolivian Lucha Libre fighters. The fighters are Indigenous women wearing big traditional skirts, scarves, and their hair in braids. Bolivian women who present like this are known as “cholitas”. This was really the opposite of what I associate with Lucha Libre (although to be honestContinue reading “Week 9: Wrestling LAST 201”
Initially, I was very excited to be reading about a cult, but I actually left this reading with an entirely different interpretation of what a cult is and its significance within a culture. What shocked me was how the cult of Maria Lionza is far more organized as a religious unit than what my biased […]
Religion questions
This week’s readings gave me an interesting look at the origins and modifications that can occur in religious tradition and practices. Although I have read briefly about how the major religions of today were formed themselves as having many elements derived from previous pagan religions, I did not quite know how recent many of these …
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What fascinated me in Canals’ article was his discussion on Maria Lionza’s “double possession”. I found it quite intriguing how Lionza’s spirit can possess the medium, in this case Barbara, first in the “Indian” form, and secondly, in the form of a “white woman”; this phenomenon quite symbolically speaks to the plurality of this saint’s […]
What fascinated me in Canals’ article was his discussion on Maria Lionza’s “double possession”. I found it quite intriguing how Lionza’s spirit can possess the medium, in this case Barbara, first in the “Indian” form, and secondly, in the form of a “white woman”; this phenomenon quite symbolically speaks to the plurality of this saint’s […]
For this week’s reading(s), I found the content of Canals’ article intriguing but found his ‘take-away’ message a bit alarming. The positive aspect I want to address is that exposure to a Latin American religion other than catholicism is always welcome, since popular media does not make it readily available. I appreciate how Canals’ anthropological…
Wow. There was so much to unpack this week. I found this weeks readings particularly interesting, and I think there…
Two TV documentaries about Sarita Colonia
