Membership and social exclusion in Bariloche in a devotional key (1907-2017)

Abstract

This work intends to analyze actions of belonging and logics of social exclusion in San Carlos de Bariloche from the first Marian invocation in the village: The Immaculate Conception (1907) from their processions and pilgrimages in the city. The Immaculate was the Patroness of the first chapel founded by the Salesians and the business Chilean-European elite belonging to organic Catholicism. The processions of the “founding” Immaculate marked territoriality from 1925 at the center of the city and the lake. Towards the 1990s, the Paraguayan migrant community moved to Bariloche an Immaculate under the patronage of Caacupé. Such “Migrant Immaculate” of strong popular imprint disputed through her pilgrimages a differentiated space, peripheral and far from the touristic circuit of the “founding” Immaculate, resignifying through religious practices the “paraguayidad” of this community in the distant south.