Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback AdditionPreface1 - Introduction: Pilgrimage as Myth and History2 - Mexican Pilgrimages: Myth and History3 - St. Patrick's Purgatory: Religion and Nationalism in an Archaic Pilgrimage4 - Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage3 - Locality and Universality in Medieval Pilgrimages6 - Apparitions, Messages, and Miracles: Postindustrial Marian Pilgrimage7 - ConclusionsAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex

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"This book constitutes an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology." -- "Culture"