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La Crónica De Potosí Y Sus Milagros: Complejidad Cultural Y Modelación De Relaciones Simbólicas, Shiddarta Vasquez Cordoba
La Crónica De Potosí Y Sus Milagros: Complejidad Cultural Y Modelación De Relaciones Simbólicas, Shiddarta Vasquez Cordoba
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This thesis focuses on an analysis of the religious world of colonial Potosí through the study of the rituals and miracles described in the History of the Imperial City of Potosi written by Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela in the first half of the eighteenth century. After a detailed reading of the text, this works proposes a schema to understand the basic but repetitive ritualistic cycles that organize the life in the city and uses tools such as Topic Maps and the modelling system called NetLogo to visualize the social and cultural networks that give life to the narration. …