Abstract

CASTELLS BALLARIN, Pilar. La Santa Muerte y la cultura de los derechos humanos. LiminaR [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.1, pp.13-25. ISSN 2007-8900.

This article is a result of the question: which values are builded concerning to the Holy Death cult and how do ts these values affect the Humans Rights sociombolic sociosymbolic context in which the cult is popular? I think about the social phenomenon ruled by twomodels: (1) an strategic and original expression to face precariety and social death (as undesirable effects of neoliberalism); (2)an expression that confirmes the fear's culture as a mecanism of social control.

Keywords : Santa Muerte; State; citizenship; human rights; violence; hierarchy; cult.

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