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From birds, gods and people. Cultural uses of the avifauna in the viceroyalty of New Granada

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No. 55 (2021): Diciembre

Abstract

Based on the aspect of the New Cultural History aimed to the study of interactions between humans and animals, this article will address some material practices developed by the “common” estates of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Indians, slaves, “free” men, etc.) during the eighteenth century and the beginning of the next century respect to the avifauna in each natural environment that they inhabited. Based on their own historical trajectory, they also developed specialized knowledge, cosmogonic parameters, hierarchy and kinship structures, ritual events and other intangible cultural manifestations in which the birds served as a substantial reference to build not only their identity, but their own reality schemes from which to place themselves to feel, think and act in the colonial context.

Keywords:

Avifauna, “common” estates, cultural uses, material practices, spiritual manifestations

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Jaime Andrés Peralta Agudelo, Universidad de Antioquia

Docente-investigador Facultad de Comunicaciones Universidad de Antioquia, MedellínColombia. Grupo
de Investigación Comunicación, Periodismo y Sociedad. Doctor en Historia. Medellín, Colombia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4539-4464.
Correo electrónico: jandresperalta@gmail.com

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Peralta Agudelo, J. A. (2021). From birds, gods and people. Cultural uses of the avifauna in the viceroyalty of New Granada. Cuadernos De Historia, (55), pp. 223–245. Retrieved from https://analesfcfm.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/65333
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