De la Historia de las Ideas a la Historia de las Prácticas Culturales: Libros, Textos y Lectores en la América Hispana de los siglos XVI a XVIII

Abstract

The degree work aims to explore the social practices present in the historical-cultural processes, the mechanisms of dissemination of ideas, and the material supports of textual culture in general and book culture in particular, which allow us to know the forms of appropriation of Western discourses by the inhabitants of Hispanic America during the 16th to 18th centuries, within the framework of the traditional historical periodization that institutionalizes the European conquest and colonization on the American continent. From the previous references, it is possible to establish that the problem of this research is based on the investigation of the production and reading practices of written texts (manuscript and printed), musical, cartographic, pictorial, and artisanal, from the categories of production, reception, and circulation of information between the 16th and 18th centuries in Hispanic America. The means of access to recognize these cultural practices are the written records located in the repositories of historical archives that preserve the raw material of grapholectic textuality, as well as the artistic and cultural expressions preserved in museums, the walls of ancient cities, contemporary, ephemeral art, artistic performances, and traditional crafts of ancestral and current peoples and communities.