Heretical Skeletons: Social Deviance & The Mediatization of Santa Muerte
(2020) KOVM12 20201Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Abstract
- The purpose of this Thesis is to investigate the Mexican religious phenomenon of Santa Muerte and the mediatization that both simplifies and sensationalizes her. By investigating public Santa Muerte shrines and prayer cards in Guadalajara and Mexico City, by interviewing devotees in both cities, and by looking at media depictions of Santa Muerte, this project will explore how mediatization affects the production and reception of Santa Muerte devotional practices within Mexico and abroad. This project will argue that the sharing of Santa Muerte images online adds another domain of visibility to the devalued or disappeared bodies that, for some, Santa Muerte has come to represent. Yet it will also be argued that this new visibility may... (More)
- The purpose of this Thesis is to investigate the Mexican religious phenomenon of Santa Muerte and the mediatization that both simplifies and sensationalizes her. By investigating public Santa Muerte shrines and prayer cards in Guadalajara and Mexico City, by interviewing devotees in both cities, and by looking at media depictions of Santa Muerte, this project will explore how mediatization affects the production and reception of Santa Muerte devotional practices within Mexico and abroad. This project will argue that the sharing of Santa Muerte images online adds another domain of visibility to the devalued or disappeared bodies that, for some, Santa Muerte has come to represent. Yet it will also be argued that this new visibility may presage a subcultural and/or mediatized trend, framed by the sociology of deviance, which may mark Santa Muerte’s gradual transition into mass culture. (Less)
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- author
- LaGrone, Austin Daniel LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- KOVM12 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Santa Muerte, Mediatization, Social Deviance, La Calavera Catrina, Branding
- language
- English
- id
- 9017405
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- 2020-09-14 08:17:29
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