As Simple as a Broom?

 

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Yazar: Ducca Durán, Isabel
Materyal Türü: artículo original
Durum:Versión publicada
Yayın Tarihi:2025
Diğer Bilgiler:A household object such as a broom is imbued with symbolism and magic because of its social circulation. In this chronicle, two fictional stories are developed to counteract the antagonistic perspectives regarding the presence of the broom in the lives of two healing figures: a saint of the Catholic Church and an indigenous midwife in colonial Peru. Tradition has sanctified the broom of the saint and satanized the broom of women, who were accused of being witches. It is concluded with a reference to commodity fetishism, as the origin of demonizing the broom was an economic process. Women accused of being witches were stripped of their property, their productive capacity, and their knowledge
Ülke:Portal de Revistas TEC
Kurum:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Dil:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/8368
Online Erişim:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/8368
Anahtar Kelime:magic
healers in colonial Peru
commodity fetishism
witches
symbolism of the broom
Literature
magia
sanadores en el Perú colonial
fetichismo de la mercancía, brujas
simbolismo de la escoba
Literatura