Die and be buried in times of Conquest.Ritual practices in an ephemeral missional space :San Francisco Xavier(XV Century)
Keywords:
Chaco Gualamba, Mission, Jesuits, Death, Body, 17th CenturyAbstract
Casting a look at the mission of San Francisco Xavier founded by Ángel de Peredo in 1672, we try to visualize funeral practices of the time in a context of Spanish-Creole domination to determine their in uence on the nati- ves Following Le Breton, our objective was to approach the “use” of the body in funeral rituals as a semantic vector that builds a relation with what is social We consider that the body, working like a “displaced likeness,” was ambivalent in the staging of the narrative and recreational game of the sacred as a means of staging, regulating and/or rejecting social imposition
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