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In the relationship between communities and architecture, tourism deserves special attention, both as a potential threat and as an opportunity for religious culture and its architectural expression. A model is proposed that links the communities of Chiloé and its temples with the tourists. The analysis focuses on maturity levels, defined as the disposition for living with tourism in a deep and integral way, as the model's backbone variable. Thus, both inhabitants and tourists, as well as the institutions and tourism activities involved, can vary in their maturity levels. It is conjectured that the encounter between "mature" communities and tourists would be optimal if the tourist activities were of a high level, defined as cultured tourism. If, on the other hand, both the "Chilotes" and the tourists are immature, while lacking the fullness of cultured tourism, there are few frustrated expectations. In contrast, when there are dissimilar levels of maturity between inhabitant and tourist a much greater degree of frustration arises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the ritual mechanisms deployed in Chile on the occasion of the ratification of the constitutional texts which came to be in the period between 1812 and 1833. By studying these political ceremonies, which are clearly continuations of the royal oaths of the colonial regime, the efforts of the Chilean leading class to socialize the republican ideals among the population become evident, making it possible to symbolically replace the King for the Constitution as the source of legitimacy of the new political system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]