Abstract

HERNANDEZ LEFRANC, Harold. El caso Banchero, of Guillermo Thorndike: Printed source that explains the cult to Luis Banchero Rossi, secular saint, in Lima. Anthropologica [online]. 2020, vol.38, n.44, pp.297-318. ISSN 0254-9212.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202001.012.

The existence of the cult to Luis Banchero Rossi -Peruvian businessman of the fish industry, who was murdered in 1972-, in the Angel cemetery, it demands the interest for its genesis, being that it is a religious cult to a secular character. The present text find that this is possible for two reasons: the violent death produce holiness; and the sacralization is not restricted to the limits of the institutionalized religion. Moreover, it proposes that, in the efficient, a factor that explains the cult is the book El caso Banchero (1973), of the journalist and writer Guillermo Thorndike. Furthermore, it practices an anthropological exegesis of it; and it evidences in this, mystified and messianic traits of the character, his life and his death; and they are understood like antecedents of the cult. Popular cults are disseminated fundamentally through of the orality, not by the written word; nevertheless, in this case the limits between the popular culture and the written text become blurred, which intermediary is the press.

Keywords : Luis Banchero Rossi; popular religious cults; secular saint; Banchero case; Guillermo Thorndike..

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