Semana Santa en Norogachi: Fiesta y espectáculo del sincretismo religioso rarámuri

Abstract

Under long-term missionary influence, the Semana Santa at Norogachi (Chihuahua, Mexico) has come to incorporate to the celebrations a mise-en-scène of some new elements characteristic for indigenous thinking and feeling. The ritual feast process is described here in detail, always founded in the own ethnographic experience, and then situated in the configurations of sense of its different symbolic elements. The fundamental question is: How could a learned religious manifestation, imposed to the Rarámuri peoples in the past, have been refunctionalised to become senseful and useful under actual conditions? It is shown that the constructions of sense about the Semana Santa at this place are as much as the actors and spectators who fill it with life.