As Simple as a Broom?

 

Đã lưu trong:
Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả: Ducca Durán, Isabel
Định dạng: artículo original
Trạng thái:Versión publicada
Ngày xuất bản:2025
Miêu tả: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
Quốc gia:Portal de Revistas TEC
Tổ chức giáo dục:Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas TEC
Ngôn ngữ:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/8368
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://revistas.tec.ac.cr/index.php/comunicacion/article/view/8368
Từ khóa: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