Revista Cultura & Religión (Oct 2009)
Fiesta de La Tirana en el contexto del Centenario de 1910: Mito y consolidación temprana de su origen y prestigio
Abstract
The theme that this paper deals with the phenomenon of the religious festival of La Tirana, that by the early twentieth century, had been happening during the month of July of each year in the town of La Tirana, located in the current Commune Pozo Almonte, about 75 kilometers south-east of Iquique, in the Province of Tamarugal First Tarapacá Region - Chile. We believe that as social phenomenon - religious holiday that begins to take shape in the late eighteenth century found in the nineteenth century, the culmination of its development and consolidation of its temporal and geographical layout, as well as its prestige within the horizon of social Pampa del Tamarugal making, that the party is established in the main, influential and best-known popular regional event. Already by the end of the nineteenth century the feast of Tirana, can be defined as a complex network of relationships, of various degrees of order and interest, among which economic, fiscal and religious firmly established and grounded, which allows us to assume that behind the party and operating a complex cultural organization or industry, in this case religion.
