Nuestras momias, nuestra historia : entre las memorias y el patrimonio funerario de San Bernardo, Cundinamarca

San Bernardo is a rural town of Cundinamarca where some deceased relatives are mummified by natural causes and have become a funerary heritage of the region. This research asks about the processes and agents that construct these mummies as patrimonial elements, and also how their different understan...

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Autores:
León Jaramillo, Alejandra
Tipo de recurso:
Trabajo de grado de pregrado
Fecha de publicación:
2018
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/61956
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/61956
Palabra clave:
Costumbres funerarias
Memoria colectiva
Momias
Patrimonio cultural
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Summary:San Bernardo is a rural town of Cundinamarca where some deceased relatives are mummified by natural causes and have become a funerary heritage of the region. This research asks about the processes and agents that construct these mummies as patrimonial elements, and also how their different understandings are articulated or come into tension as they are bodies of relatives who are now exhibited inside a museum. Hence, I explored the social universe embodied by the mummies through their materiality, the memories of their relatives, the catholic religion, the official speech of the museum and the perceptions of the visitors. The main objective was to account for the meanings of the mummies given by the relatives and contrast them with the collective memory discourse formulated by the museum. Thus, the museum is understood as an institution that presents and represents the mummies in a way that grants them a specific value...