Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo (May 2008)

Mystic esoteric tourism in Uritorco Zone (Cordoba, Argentina): ethnographical approach

  • Alejandro Otamendi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v2i2.101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2
pp. 20 – 40

Abstract

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This article aims to synthesize the social construction and changes held in symbolic representations of Capilla del Monte dwellers, during the last two decades at that tourist area in Cordoba Province, Argentina. It will also describe from an ethnographic perspective how esoteric tourists, newcomers from the last migration waves and local authorities collaborated in its own way for the Uritorco Zone development, at the Uritorco Hill, where a peculiar mystic-esoteric discourse has been born combined with narratives of supernatural, ethnic, natural and extra terrestrial issues.

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