Abstract

NORMANDO CRUZ, Enrique. Mujeres en la Colonia: Dominación colonial, diferencias étnicas y de género en cofradías y fiestas religiosas en Jujuy, Río de la Plata. Anthropologica [online]. 2005, vol.23, n.23, pp.127-150. ISSN 0254-9212.

The article makes a comparative analysis of the participation of women in the fraternities and religious celebrations, and reveals that at the end of the colonial period there existed a "distance between them" established by the economic, cultural and ethnical differences (Bourdieu 2000: 116), between the indigenous women of the rural world and the Spanish women of the elite and between the half-breed and Indian women of the urban shell. This study allows us to see that, while the female indigenous peasants of Purmamarca, Tumbaya or Cholacor enjoy themselves freely-and sometimes with the use of alcohol-in public spaces where they work together with the men, and sing with constant authority during religious celebrations; the peasants of the cooperative and the indigenous women who make chicha in the San Salvador de Jujuy square are almost always dominated by a man, can pray their litany only in the choruses of religious fraternities, in family life or in public work spaces which are authorized and controlled by men.

Keywords : colony; fraternities; gender.

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