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Objetos y cultura. rituales, flujos y elaboraciones en el Nuevo Reino de Granada
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This article studies the circulation, appropriation, and commercial and symbolic uses of objects in colonial society, suggesting ways to understand the circulation of objects and commodities through the spaces of the New Kingdom of Granada. It tries to specify the functions played by objects in domestic life and, based on their circulation, to weave together the communications they established between cities, towns, and settlements and the centers of power in Antioquia and the Viceroyalty during the eighteenth century. By going behind the historicity of the objects, the marks they made and their creation, we can better understand the dimensions of their routes, circuits, and nodes as a substantial part of the culture and the relations of interdependence with other societies.
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This article examines the circulation, appropriation, and commercial and symbolic uses of objects in colonial New Kingdom of Granada society, especially eighteenth-century Antioquia and the Viceroyalty. It argues that objects were social elaborations and cultural mediators linking domestic life, rituals, roads, and trade.
Key findings
- Objects in colonial domestic life were socially differentiated and ritualized: elites used silver cutlery, mirrors, religious images, fine china, and books, while common people used clay vessels, coconuts with silver bases, and often ate with their hands.
- In mining, tools became identifiers: in Nóvita and Citará slave cuadrillas, the text distinguishes *negros de barra*, *negros de batea*, *negros de almocafre*, *negros de cachos*, and the *negro forjador/herrero/maestro de la fragua*; names and ethnic origins sometimes disappeared in favor of the object/tool each enslaved person carried.
- Between 1773 and 1777, the three power centers of the Province of Antioquia—Rionegro, Medellín, and Santa Fe—received 5,157, 2,653, and 1,152 *cargas* of clothing, Castilian/Quito/Kingdom goods, respectively, linked to mining expansion, population growth, and slight road improvement.
- Dress and objects marked ethnic and social privilege and were regulated by Indian legislation: *negras* and *mulatas* were prohibited from wearing gold, pearls, or silk, except married to Spaniards under limited conditions, while capes, daggers, and swords were reserved for nobility and people of Spanish origin.
Methods
- Historical and qualitative study of material culture, drawing on archival sources including AGN (*Testamentarías del Cauca*, *Negros y esclavos del Cauca*, *Mejoras Materiales*, *Juicios Civiles*, *Abastos*), AHJM (Caja 177, Caja 191), AHM (*Cabildo*), and ACC (*Minas*), plus printed primary sources and secondary literature.
- Analyzes circulation, appropriation, commercial and symbolic uses of objects in domestic life, rituals, roads, and trade, focusing on eighteenth-century Antioquia and the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
- No formal sampling or statistical model is used; evidence comes from testaments, inventories, letters, lawsuits, cabildo records, and administrative/traveler reports.
Limitations
- The paper states no explicit limitations.
- Evident from the text: it is a broad interpretive essay relying on selected archival examples and secondary synthesis, without systematic sampling or quantitative analysis, so findings are illustrative rather than exhaustive.
- Evident from the text: geographic and temporal scope is concentrated on eighteenth-century Antioquia and the Viceroyalty, with some nineteenth-century asides, rather than a comprehensive survey of the entire New Kingdom of Granada.
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“Por otro lado, un seguimiento a los testamentos otorgados durante el siglo XVIII deja al descubierto la sacralización del espacio doméstico, al mantener permanente -mente imágenes y cuadros religiosos”
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“durante todo el siglo XVIII, las distintas ciudades y villas del Virreinato tuvieron sus cofradías, devociones y advocaciones religiosas 13 .”
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“Las categorías étnicas y de subordinación tuvieron en el mundo colonial una correspondencia con los objetos que se podía tener para el uso personal.”
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“La asociación y apropiación entre objetos y hombres alcanzó tales niveles de interdependencia que en las cuadrillas de esclavos del Chocó y Antioquia, muchas veces los nombres y orígenes étnicos desaparecieron para nombrar a los esclavos según con los objetos-herramientas con que desempeñaban sus trabajos.”
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“Con particular claridad, Fray Juan de Santa Gertrudis percibió en Cartagena las diferenciaciones sociales en el uso del vestido entre las mujeres beneméritas y las esclavas:”
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§ 1. Hábitos, objetos y vida doméstica · p. 6
“9. Archivo Histórico Judicial de Medellín (En adelante AHJM) Doc. 3414, Caja 191”
§ Archivos: · p. 17
“Archivo Histórico Judicial de Medellín (AHJM), Medellín, Colombia: Caja 177, Doc., 3414; Caja 191, Doc., 3569.”
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§ Imagen No. 1: Herramientas empleadas en el laboreo de las minas · p. 11
“El 19 de junio de 1622, Pedro de Acevedo, albacea de doña Josefa Palacio, reclamaba un pedazo de tierra en la jurisdicción de la Villa de Medellín;”
§ Imagen No. 1: Herramientas empleadas en el laboreo de las minas · p. 9
“emergente Villa de la Candelaria de Medellín (erigida el 2 de noviembre de 1675)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jiménez Meneses, O.
- Venue
- Historia Crítica
- Publisher
- Universidad de los Andes
- Published
- 2009-09-01
- Issue
- 39
- Pages
- 44-61
- ISSN
- 0121-1617 (ISSN-L)
- 1900-6152
- OpenAlex
- W1530192258
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- es
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Historia Crítica (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- OpenEdition (OpenEdition) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Greater South Information System
- Historia Crítica (cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies in Latin America
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History and Politics in Latin America
- Keywords
- material culture, circulation of objects, colonial society, New Kingdom of Granada, ritual, domestic life, trade and commerce, Antioquia, Viceroyalty of New Granada, 18th century, cultural exchange
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