Corporality and identity of the pilgrim gaucho. Tensions and negotiations in the re-construction of memory

Abstract

The central idea of this paper is to make a critical review of the gaucho archetype analyzed from his corporality and identity. Corporality that recreates during a particular territoriality: the pilgrimage on horseback to the Our Lady Basilica at Lujan, Argentina. The purpose of this reviewing is the search of empirical connections among the diverse social objects, the traditionalist displacement and the religious practice, where corporality becomes substantial as catalyzer of those subjacent differentiations, non-viewed, under an apparent homogeneity.From there, it looks to break up the ingenuous vision of a unique and universal model of being gaucho, pilgrim and Argentine.