La honorabilidad en la apariencia: Teatralidades cotidianas y escenificación de la blancura en el Virreinato de la Nueva Granada (1750-1806)

Abstract

In the second part of XVIII Century and the first decade of XIX Century, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was characterized by the social mobilityand the accelerated process of miscegenation;it was the scenario where appearance was associated to honourability and quality of blood. The importance of wear and show a status was reinforced not only by the purity of blood imaginary but also by the baroque rhetoric. The distinction based on exteriority and the theatrality of courtesan imitation was a symptom of the complexity of social transformations in this period.

Keywords

• purity of blood
• miscegenation
• performance
• aesthetics of power
• honour
• costume.