Pláticas De Sobremesa

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Este libro examina un conjunto de casos de suicidio y de intento de suicidio ocurridos en el Nuevo Reino de Granada durante el siglo XVIII y parte del XIX, para comprender, a partir de su estudio, no solo la percepción, las reacciones, las explicaciones, los castigos de los que la muerte voluntaria era objeto, sino también para develar las dinámicas sociales, los contextos religiosos, jurídicos y morales donde se inscribía el acto de autodestrucción en esa época y lugar. El análisis de este repertorio de casos individuales ayuda a entender las actitudes colectivas frente al fenómeno. ...

En la historiografía novohispana, la obra de fray Toribio Motolinía es fuente indispensable. Edmundo O"Gorman ha investigado, con exigente pasión de erudito, la vida y los escritos del misionero y una inquietud que es el objeto de esta obra: la conjetura de que la Historia de los indios de la Nueva España no fuera un texto de Motolinía. Disipar ese enigma es el intento de este libro.