The corporeal and the carnivalesque: the 2004 exposition of St. Francis Xavier and the consumption of history in postcolonial Goa

To enter Old Goa during the 2004 Exposition of St. Francis Xavier’s “Sacred Relics” is to experience a world where the corporeal and the carnivalesque coalesce. It is a ritual and religious space wherein the corpse of a 16th century Jesuit missionary-turned-saint takes center stage: pilgrims and tou...

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Main Author: Gupta,Pamila (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Goa
India
St. Francis Xavier
Portuguese colonialism
Jesuits
Goa tourism
Online Access:http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0873-65612017000100006
Country:Portugal
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