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Familia y sociedad: imágenes y representaciones en el mundo de los exvotos en México en las primeras décadas del siglo XX

The present article analyses a series of popular retables and religious ex-votos from one of the most important sanctuaries of the Mexican republic: The Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City, and San Juan de los Lagos in the Mid-west region of the country. These retables contain distinct representations of childhood and stretch over the period between 1880 and 1940. The continuities of a traditional peasant universe are recorded over this important period of time, as well as the modern ruptures linked to an urban society. One of the thematic axis relate to accidents and to diseases. At every moment the ex-voto is considered a product of popular Catholicism that manifests distinct forms of resistance against the official discourse of the Christian faith.

Childhood; Popular Catholicism; Representations; Family; Modernity


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