Editors:
- Focuses on heritage management and local population issues in the Camino, on the route to Finisterre
- Provides a new analysis of pilgrimage and heritage
- Delivers intriguing insights into efforts to market the “End of the World”
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 117)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History, Myths and Legends of the End of the World
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Front Matter
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Local Impacts of the Pilgrimage to Finisterre
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Front Matter
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Spirituality, Motives and the End of the World
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the route to Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage itself, it instead examines a peculiar part of the route, the Camino to Finisterre, employing multiple perspectives that consider the processes of heritagization, the effects of the pilgrimage on local communities, and the motivations of the pilgrims. The book is based on a three-year research project and is the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration between anthropologists, sociologists, historians and archaeologists.
Instead of ending in Santiago, as the rest of the Caminos do, this route continues to the cape of Finisterre on the Galician Atlantic coast. This part of the Camino de Santiago is not officially recognized by the Catholic Church and doesnot count as part of reaching Compostela, the recognition granted by the Catholic Church to those pilgrims who have walked at least 100 km. For this reason, as well as its relationship with the sun cult, many pilgrims call this route “the Camino of the atheists.” In fact, the Catholic Church is a strong force for the heritagization of the rest of the Caminos, and maintains a clear ignoratio strategy concerning the Finisterre route: Officially, the church neither opposes nor recognizes this route.
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre
Book Subtitle: Walking to the End of the World
Editors: Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20212-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20211-2Published: 14 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38506-8Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20212-9Published: 02 July 2015
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Regional and Cultural Studies, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Anthropology