Abstract
This paper is about the significance of particular red beads used in love magic during the 17th and 18th centuries, specifically on the construction of symbolic universe through perceptions based on "others" materiality. It aims to provide a connected studied between Spain and New Spain through the histories of the gipsy Generosa Vicente and mestiza Margarita Palacios recovered from the Inquisition authorities notes. This is the way to understand the extent to which cross-cultural contacts privilege the transmission of ideas associated with objects, and how they were used apparently with similar purposes but with a very different meaning
Translated title of the contribution | Red beads and love magic: Cross-cultural exchanges between Spain and new Spain in modern era |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 567-578 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Hispania Sacra |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 140 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Inquisición
- historia de las mujeres
- materialidades
- magia
- abalorios