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Las transformaciones de los exvotos pictográficos guadalupanos (1848-1999)

Margarita Zires, 2014 Iberoamericana Vervuert, Spain, 342 pp.

Biography of the Guadalupano Ex-Voto

  • Renée de la Torre Castellanos

The votive offerings are pictographic materials that were made to ask, thank and witness the miraculous power (Faser, 2000), in this case of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Its ritual practice is carried out within a system of votive practices that occur in the system of the Catholic popular religion. But in addition to this original meaning, votive offerings have been valued by collectors and art lovers as aesthetic works (the Frida Kalho collection accounts for this), but they have also been considered by anthropologists and historians as period testimonies (see works by Patricia Arias and Jorge Durand, 2003). In this book, Margarita Zires takes them up as social texts that can be interpreted and analyzed as discursive genres.