La bruja y la vieja : un cruce entre dos estereotipos

En los Epodos 5 y 17 y la Sátira 1.8, Horacio retrata a Canidia, una horrible y cruel mujer que practica ritos mágicos. Para la configuración del perfil de esta hechicera y sus colegas, el poeta se vale de diversas estrategias, como la animalización, la degradación moral y la asociación con grupos sociales marginales. En esta misma línea, incorpora al retrato de aquellas figuras características del estereotipo de la mujer vieja y libidinosa. El presente trabajo explora el modo como se inserta dicho estereotipo en la trama textual de los poemas de Canidia y los efectos de sentido que produce.

La bruja y la vieja : un cruce entre dos estereotipos

En los Epodos 5 y 17 y la Sátira 1.8, Horacio retrata a Canidia, una horrible y cruel mujer que practica ritos mágicos. Para la configuración del perfil de esta hechicera y sus colegas, el poeta se vale de diversas estrategias, como la animalización, la degradación moral y la asociación con grupos sociales marginales. En esta misma línea, incorpora al retrato de aquellas figuras características del estereotipo de la mujer vieja y libidinosa. El presente trabajo explora el modo como se inserta dicho estereotipo en la trama textual de los poemas de Canidia y los efectos de sentido que produce.

La bruja y la vieja : un cruce entre dos estereotipos

En los Epodos 5 y 17 y la Sátira 1.8, Horacio retrata a Canidia, una horrible y cruel mujer que practica ritos mágicos. Para la configuración del perfil de esta hechicera y sus colegas, el poeta se vale de diversas estrategias, como la animalización, la degradación moral y la asociación con grupos sociales marginales. En esta misma línea, incorpora al retrato de aquellas figuras características del estereotipo de la mujer vieja y libidinosa. El presente trabajo explora el modo como se inserta dicho estereotipo en la trama textual de los poemas de Canidia y los efectos de sentido que produce.

Mallei maleficarum tractatus aliquot noui ac veteres : opus nunc primùm è variis auctoribus in unum corpus coaceruatum ...; tomi II pars II.

Contiene: "De natura daemonum Jo.Laurentii Ananiae"; "R. P. F. Bernardi Comensis... tractatus de strigibus"; "Ambrosii de Vignate... quaestio unica de lamiis seu strigibus et earum delictis. Cum commentariis Francisci Penae"; "Venerabilis magistri Joannis Gersonii... tractatus de erroribus circa artem magicam et articulis reprobatis"; "Joannis Francisci Leonis... libellus de sortilegiis"; "Jacobi Simancae... titulus unicus de lamiis"; "Alphonsi a castro... de impia sortilegarum, maleficarum et lamiarum haeresi earumque punitione"; "... Pauli Grillandi... tractatus de sortilegiis eorumque poenis"

Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex : quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium, & variarum superstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, jurisconsultis, medicis, philologis /

Mode of access: Internet.

Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium, & variarum superstitionum confutatio .../

Mode of access: Internet.

Lucumí (Yoruba) culture in Cuba: A reevaluation (1830s -1940s)

The status, roles, and interactions of three dominant African ethnic groups and their descendants in Cuba significantly influenced the island's cubanidad (national identity): the Lucumís (Yoruba), the Congos (Bantú speakers from Central West Africa), and the Carabalís (from the region of Calabar). These three groups, enslaved on the island, coexisted, each group confronting obstacles that threatened their way of life and cultural identities. Through covert resistance, cultural appropriation, and accommodation, all three, but especially the Lucumís, laid deep roots in the nineteenth century that came to fruition in the twentieth. During the early 1900s, Cuba confronted numerous pressures, internal and external. Under the pretense of a quest for national identity and modernity, Afro-Cubans and African cultures and religion came under political, social, and intellectual attack. Race was an undeniable element in these conflicts. While all three groups were oppressed equally, only the Lucumís fought back, contesting accusations of backwardness, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and brujería (witchcraft), exaggerated by the sensationalistic media, often with the police's and legal system's complicity. Unlike the covert character of earlier epochs' responses to oppression, in the twentieth century Lucumí resistance was overt and outspoken, publically refuting the accusations levied against African religions. Although these struggles had unintended consequences for the Lucumís, they gave birth to cubanidad's African component. With the help of Fernando Ortiz, the Lucumí were situated at the pinnacle of a hierarchical pyramid, stratifying African religious complexes based on civilizational advancement, but at a costly price. Social ascent denigrated Lucumí religion to the status of folklore, depriving it of its status as a bona fide religious complex. To the present, Lucumí religious descendants, in Cuba and, after 1959, in many other areas of the world, are still contesting this contradiction in terms: an elevated downgrade.

Muerte, Budismo, y Protocolo Funerario en España: aproximación a algunos grupos budistas, y a la FCBE

Al mismo tiempo que poseemos abundantes estudios sobre budismo en Asia y diferentes países de Europa (Baumann, 1995; Baumann, 2002, Bluck, 2004), Estados Unidos (Fields, 1992), Australia (Rocha y Barker, 2010), o Canadá (Matthews, 2006) la situación en España es diferente en tanto en cuanto se posee muy poco conocimiento académico sobre el budismo que se practica en este país en lo que se refiere a las líneas generales del mismo (Prebish y Baumann, 2002), su práctica, y a la particularidad de cómo es concebida la muerte –y su relación con la vida-. Asimismo, puede afirmarse que en pleno año 2016, son casi inexistentes los datos académicos sobre el protocolo funerario budista puesto a punto en España, y sobre la Federación de Comunidades Budistas Española. Lo que se propone por tanto en esta investigación, presentada como Trabajo de Fin de Máster, es ampliar los conocimientos académicos acerca de estas cuestiones, incidiendo en cómo es concebida la muerte desde un budismo occidental (español), y en el protocolo funerario budista español.

Diabolical Witches or Sinful Princes? “Political” Foundations of Demonological Skepticism in the Early Modern Period

Skepticism regarding witchcraft, characteristic (but not exclusive) of the Spanish lands, corresponds with a particular view of evil’s etiology. Whereas paradigmatic texts of radical demonology, as the Malleus Maleficarum, gave a conclusive step towards the demonization of natural evil (as they put the blame on the devil and the witches for calamities and plagues), texts of Castilian origin, as Alonso de Espina’s Fortalitium fidei, embraced the traditional position: they considered the devil as a promoter of moral evil in the world, meanwhile natural evil is seen as a result of the wrath of God for the sins of His people –particularly, the sin of Christian princes. I argue that the distinction between these two ways of thinking the causality of the world’s misfortunes can be read in political terms.

La poética adivinatoria de Ifa: transculturación yórùbà en la escritura caribeña

Programa de doctorado: Literatura y teoría de la literatura. La fecha de publicación es la fecha de lectura

Delito y moral en el Coloquio de los perros

[es] En virtud del pensamiento jurídico de la Edad Moderna los conceptos de delito y pecado estaban interrelacionados. Asimismo, las Novelas ejemplares, entre otras obras literarias, reflejan la ideología imperante y concerniente a la necesaria salvaguarda del orden público y religioso. A la luz del derecho criminal castellano, el principal propósito de este ensayo es el análisis de los comportamientos heterodoxos y de los delitos perpetrados por los personajes del Coloquio de los perros. Algunas prácticas ilícitas contempladas son el robo, el amancebamiento y la brujería. [en]In the Early Modern legal thought the concepts of crime and sin were interconnected. Furthermore Exemplary Novels, amongst other literary works, reflect the prevailing ideology concerning to necessary maintenance of public and religious order. In the light of the Castilian criminal law, the main purpose of this essay is the analysis of the heterodox behaviors and the offences perpetrated by the characters in The dialogue of the dogs. Some narrated crimes are theft, concubinage and sorcery.

Maruja, la bruja de allí

Fondo Margaritainés Restrepo

Francia, la explosión de un país embrujado : la gran marcha de astrólogos, brujas y videntes

Fondo Margaritainés Restrepo

Lucumí (Yoruba) Culture in Cuba: A Reevaluation (1830S -1940s)

The status, roles, and interactions of three dominant African ethnic groups and their descendants in Cuba significantly influenced the island’s cubanidad (national identity): the Lucumís (Yoruba), the Congos (Bantú speakers from Central West Africa), and the Carabalís (from the region of Calabar). These three groups, enslaved on the island, coexisted, each group confronting obstacles that threatened their way of life and cultural identities. Through covert resistance, cultural appropriation, and accommodation, all three, but especially the Lucumís, laid deep roots in the nineteenth century that came to fruition in the twentieth. During the early 1900s, Cuba confronted numerous pressures, internal and external. Under the pretense of a quest for national identity and modernity, Afro-Cubans and African cultures and religion came under political, social, and intellectual attack. Race was an undeniable element in these conflicts. While all three groups were oppressed equally, only the Lucumís fought back, contesting accusations of backwardness, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and brujería (witchcraft), exaggerated by the sensationalistic media, often with the police’s and legal system’s complicity. Unlike the covert character of earlier epochs’ responses to oppression, in the twentieth century Lucumí resistance was overt and outspoken, publically refuting the accusations levied against African religions. Although these struggles had unintended consequences for the Lucumís, they gave birth to cubanidad’s African component. With the help of Fernando Ortiz, the Lucumí were situated at the pinnacle of a hierarchical pyramid, stratifying African religious complexes based on civilizational advancement, but at a costly price. Social ascent denigrated Lucumí religion to the status of folklore, depriving it of its status as a bona fide religious complex. To the present, Lucumí religious descendants, in Cuba and, after 1959, in many other areas of the world, are still contesting this contradiction in terms: an elevated downgrade.