This article aims to study the formal and structural organization of Mexican exvotos according to semiotic theory. It seeks to appreciate the role of the sick, particularly women, in practices surrounding the body, physical ailments, and healing processes, as well as family dynamics. The relationship between the artwork and external reality will be emphasized in terms of critical and analytical elaboration.
Craveri, M. E., Las prácticas alrededor del cuerpo. Mundo femenino, salud y enfermedad en los retablos pictóricos mexicanos, in Margherita Cannavacciuolo, M. R. C. A. F. (ed.), Hipócrates y sus artificios. Enfermedad, medicina y narración en las literaturas y culturas hispánicas e hispanoamericanas, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venezia 2025: 42 67- 79. 10.30687/978-88-6969-939-9/005 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/321816]
Las prácticas alrededor del cuerpo. Mundo femenino, salud y enfermedad en los retablos pictóricos mexicanos
Craveri, Michela Elisa
2025
Abstract
This article aims to study the formal and structural organization of Mexican exvotos according to semiotic theory. It seeks to appreciate the role of the sick, particularly women, in practices surrounding the body, physical ailments, and healing processes, as well as family dynamics. The relationship between the artwork and external reality will be emphasized in terms of critical and analytical elaboration.
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