On sorcerers, sorcerers and doctors. Magical practices, popular culture and colonial society in 18th century Tucumán
This paper attempts a first and general historical approach to the problem of the so-called colonial witchcraft practices and their persecution in present-day northwestern Argentina. Since it is a subject little explored by regional historiography, our contribution will have to make its way laboriou...
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I10-R343-article-98802021-09-21T17:30:19Z On sorcerers, sorcerers and doctors. Magical practices, popular culture and colonial society in 18th century Tucumán Sobre brujos, hechiceros y médicos. Prácticas mágicas, cultura popular y sociedad colonial en el Tucumán del siglo XVIII Farberman, Judith This paper attempts a first and general historical approach to the problem of the so-called colonial witchcraft practices and their persecution in present-day northwestern Argentina. Since it is a subject little explored by regional historiography, our contribution will have to make its way laboriously, venturing into neighboring and not better known terrains for our country: that of the legal culture -supposedly learned- on the one hand, and that of the hybrid colonial popular culture, on the other. As in other spatial and temporal contexts, both came together in the civil and ecclesiastical courts, and not always for the first time. As we shall see, in some cases magic shows us one of its most interesting aspects: its capacity to unite, even if only temporarily, subjects distanced by their social hierarchy. Indeed, many Spaniards hired the services of specialists in the art of sickness and healing. And for better or worse, the Spaniard who went to the indigenous "sorceress" or the black "healer" had to submit to their will: a temporary reversal of power relations took place in the act of healing, divination or harm to third parties. The situation of the judicial process put things back in their place, reestablishing the balance. Este trabajo intenta una primera y general aproximación histórica a la problemática de las llamadas prácticas hechiceriles coloniales y su persecución en el actual noroeste argentino. Por tratarse de un tema poco explorado por la historiografía regional, nuestro aporte tendrá que abrirse camino trabajosamente,incursionando en terrenos aledaños y no mejor conocidos para nuestro país: el de la cultura jurídica –supuestamente docta– por un lado, y el de la híbrida cultura popular colonial, por el otro. Al igual que en otros contextos espaciales y temporales, ambas se dieron cita en los tribunales civiles y eclesiásticos,y no siempre por primera vez. Como veremos, en algunos casos la magia nos muestra uno de sus aspectos más interesantes: su capacidad de unir, aunque más no fuera transitoriamente, a sujetos distantes por su jerarquía social. En efecto, muchos españoles contrataban los servicios de especialistas en el arte de enfermar y curar. Y para bien o para mal, el español que acudía a la “hechicera” indígena o al “curandero” negro debía someterse a su voluntad: una temporaria reversión de las relaciones de poder tenía lugar en el acto de curación, adivinación o daño a terceros. La situación del proceso judicial ponía las cosas nuevamente en su lugar, restableciendo el equilibrio. Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2001-12-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9880 10.53872/2422.7544.n4.9880 Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad; Núm. 4 (2001); 67-104 2422-7544 1514-5816 10.53872/2422.7544.n4 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9880/10562 https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cuadernosdehistoriaeys/article/view/9880/31230 Derechos de autor 2014 Cuadernos de historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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This paper attempts a first and general historical approach to the problem of the so-called colonial witchcraft practices and their persecution in present-day northwestern Argentina. Since it is a subject little explored by regional historiography, our contribution will have to make its way laboriously, venturing into neighboring and not better known terrains for our country: that of the legal culture -supposedly learned- on the one hand, and that of the hybrid colonial popular culture, on the other. As in other spatial and temporal contexts, both came together in the civil and ecclesiastical courts, and not always for the first time. As we shall see, in some cases magic shows us one of its most interesting aspects: its capacity to unite, even if only temporarily, subjects distanced by their social hierarchy. Indeed, many Spaniards hired the services of specialists in the art of sickness and healing. And for better or worse, the Spaniard who went to the indigenous "sorceress" or the black "healer" had to submit to their will: a temporary reversal of power relations took place in the act of healing, divination or harm to third parties. The situation of the judicial process put things back in their place, reestablishing the balance. |
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