Publication: De turismo y brujería: el mercado de Sonora
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Enciso González, Jesús
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Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Chile / Enredars-Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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En el imaginario popular, en el Mercado de Sonora se encuentra uno de los centros principales de la brujería en la Ciudad de México. Aunque ciertamente en este lugar se ofrece una gran cantidad de mercancías dirigidas a resolver problemas de salud, sentimentales e incluso económicos, también lo es que este espacio se ha convertido en un lugar pluricultural, un foco de atracción para muchas personas que buscan saciar su curiosidad sobre los “saberes ocultos”, y se concibe actualmente por muchas personas como un mercado turístico. El escrito propuesto aborda dos fenómenos que se presentan en la capital, y quizá en muy diversas ciudades del país: por un lado, la “turistificación de la vida urbana”, con su cadena de mercantilización de bienes culturales y no culturales; y por otro lado, la reproducción de saberes, mitos y tradiciones ligados a lo esotérico: un modernizado pensamiento mágico. Ambos fenómenos, conforman y alimentan un sistema de creencias que coadyuvan a ciertos grupos sociales a afrontar la violencia, la desigualdad y la incertidumbre que ya son comunes a toda gran urbe latinoamericana contemporánea.
In the popular imagination, the Mercado de Sonora is one of the main centers of witchcraft in Mexico City. Although it is true that this place offers a large number of goods aimed at solving health, sentimental and even economic problems, it is also true that this space has become a multicultural place, a focus of attraction for many people who seek to satisfy their curiosity about “hidden knowledge”, and is currently conceived by many people as a tourist market. The proposed paper addresses two phenomena that occur in the capital, and perhaps in very different cities of the country: on the one hand, the “touristification of urban life”, with its chain of commodification of cultural and non-cultural goods; and on the other hand, the reproduction of knowledge, myths and traditions linked to the esoteric: a modernized magical thinking. Both phenomena shape and feed a system of beliefs that help certain social groups to confront the violence, inequality and uncertainty that are already common to all large contemporary Latin American cities.
In the popular imagination, the Mercado de Sonora is one of the main centers of witchcraft in Mexico City. Although it is true that this place offers a large number of goods aimed at solving health, sentimental and even economic problems, it is also true that this space has become a multicultural place, a focus of attraction for many people who seek to satisfy their curiosity about “hidden knowledge”, and is currently conceived by many people as a tourist market. The proposed paper addresses two phenomena that occur in the capital, and perhaps in very different cities of the country: on the one hand, the “touristification of urban life”, with its chain of commodification of cultural and non-cultural goods; and on the other hand, the reproduction of knowledge, myths and traditions linked to the esoteric: a modernized magical thinking. Both phenomena shape and feed a system of beliefs that help certain social groups to confront the violence, inequality and uncertainty that are already common to all large contemporary Latin American cities.




