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La Civilidad en las Castas Veladas del México Actual
Author(s) -
Horacio López,
Irene Marquina Sánchez,
Celia Cristina Contreras Asturias
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
política y sociedad
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1988-3129
pISSN - 1130-8001
DOI - 10.5209/rev_poso.2013.v50.n2.40016
Subject(s) - caste , civility , sign (mathematics) , hierarchy , meaning (existential) , colonialism , race (biology) , sociology , identity (music) , social identity theory , stratum , gender studies , humanities , ethnology , geography , social group , aesthetics , social science , epistemology , political science , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , politics , law , paleontology , biology
This paper deals with the problem of the present patterns of living together of Mexicans, starting from the concept of Caste, managed during the Colonial times. In the New Spain, that concept meant ‘racial mixture’ and, with that meaning, the concept integrated two different semantic horizons: that of the mixture of races and that of the social stratum. During the Colonial times, the caste placed people in two different horizons, one based on somatic characteristics, and another, based on social hierarchy. Today, the Novohispanic meanings of the words ‘caste’ y ‘race’ are absent. The issue of the somatic differences has disappeared from the analysis of the identity of the Mexican, but those differences are still underlined as a sign of differences of economic, educative and cultural wealth, and, overall, as a sign of interpersonal manners, that is, as signs of differences of civility.El escrito aborda el problema de los actuales patrones de convivencia de los mexicanos, a partir del concepto de Casta, manejado durante la Colonia. En la Nueva España ese concepto significó ‘mezcla racial’ y, con ese significado, el concepto integró dos distintos horizontes semánticos: el de mezcla de razas y el de estrato social. Durante la Colonia, la casta ubicaba a las personas dentro de dos distintos horizontes, uno basado en características somáticas, y otro, basado en la jerarquización social. Hoy, los significados novohispanos de las palabras ‘casta’ y ‘raza’ están ausentes. El tema de las diferencias somáticas ha desaparecido del campo del análisis de la identidad del mexicano, pero esas diferencias todavía son señaladas como signo de diferencias de riqueza económica, educativa y cultural, y sobre todo, como signo de maneras de trato interpersonal, es decir, como signos de diferencias de civilidad

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