The honourability in appearance: daily theatricality and white performance in the Viceroyalty of New Granada
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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En la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y la primera década del siglo XIX el Virreinato de la Nueva Granada se caracterizó por la movilidad social y un acelerado proceso de mestizaje, escenario en el que se subrayaba la apariencia ligada a la honorabilidad y por lo tanto a la calidad. La importancia del vestir un estado y demostrarlo tomaba cada vez más fuerza dentro del imaginario de limpieza de sangre y de la retórica barroca. La distinción basada en la exterioridad y la teatralización de una imitación cortesana eran un síntoma de la complejidad de las transformaciones sociales de este periodo.
In the second part of XVIII Century and the first decade of XIX Century, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was characterized by the social mobility and the accelerated process of miscegenation; it was the scenario where appearance was associated to honourability and quality of blood. The importance of wear and show a status was reinforced not only by the purity of blood imaginary but also by the baroque rhetoric. The distinction based on exteriority and the theatrality of courtesan imitation was a symptom of the complexity of social transformations in this period.
In the second part of XVIII Century and the first decade of XIX Century, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was characterized by the social mobility and the accelerated process of miscegenation; it was the scenario where appearance was associated to honourability and quality of blood. The importance of wear and show a status was reinforced not only by the purity of blood imaginary but also by the baroque rhetoric. The distinction based on exteriority and the theatrality of courtesan imitation was a symptom of the complexity of social transformations in this period.
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Estéticas del poder, honor, limpieza de sangre, mestizaje, teatralidad, vestido, Aesthetics of power, honour, purity of blood, miscegenation, performance, costume