Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre

Cristina Sánchez-Carretero is a staff researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She was awarded a PhD by the University of Pennsylvania for her dissertation on the revitalization of religious practices among Dominican migrant workers in Spain (2002). Her areas of interest are: processes of traditionalisation and heritage formation; the intersection of migration and cultural heritage (in particular, the role of the revitalization of religious practices after migrating); and the role of rituals and expressive culture in contemporary societies. She has published extensively on these topics and has edited the books: Performance, arte verbal y comunicación (2000), with Dorothy Noyes; Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display (2003), with Jack Santino; El Archivo del Duelo (2011); and Grassroots Memorials. The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death (Berghahn), co-edited with Peter Jan Margry (2011).

• ​Chapter 1: Introduction: Finisterre, Heritage and Pilgrimage; Cristina Sánchez-Carretero.- PART I: HISTORY, MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE END OF THE WORLD.- Chapter 2: Imagining an End of the World: Histories and Mythologies of the Santiago - Finisterre Connection; Peter Jan Margry.- Chapter 3: Analyzing the Camino: From Vindicating Local Elements to the Success of Xacobeo; Manuel Vilar Álvarez.- PART II: LOCAL IMPACTS OF THE PILGRIMAGE TO FINISTERRE.- Chapter 4: Heritagization of the Camino to Finisterre; Cristina Sánchez-Carretero.- Chapter 5: Socio-economic Impacts of the Camino to Finisterre; Eva Parga-Dans.- Chapter 5: Processes of Change in Olveiroa, a Village-hostel; Paula Ballesteros-Arias.-  Chapter 6: Archaeological Heritage Management along the Camino to Finisterre; Carlos Otero-Vilariño.- PART III: SPIRITUALITY, MOTIVES AND THE END OF THE WORLD.- Chapter 7: To be or not to be,… a Pilgrim? Spiritual Pluralism on the Finisterre Trail; Peter Jan Margry.- Notes on the Contributors.- List of Illustrations.- Index.