The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)

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In this article we will discuss the ritual dimension of funerals and its connection with an important event throughout the XIX century: the arrival and spread of cholera epidemics. The argument that we make is that epidemics caused deep social crises, affecting all spheres of social life. These trau...

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Autor principal: Fiquepron, Maximiliano Ricardo
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Publicado: Investigaciones Socio-Históricas Regionales (ISHIR) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) 2017
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Epidemics
Burials
Estate
Buenos Aires
XIX Century
Epidemias
Funerales
Estado
Siglo XIX
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Burials
Estate
Buenos Aires
XIX Century
Epidemias
Funerales
Estado
Buenos Aires
Siglo XIX
spellingShingle Epidemics
Burials
Estate
Buenos Aires
XIX Century
Epidemias
Funerales
Estado
Buenos Aires
Siglo XIX
Fiquepron, Maximiliano Ricardo
The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)
topic_facet Epidemics
Burials
Estate
Buenos Aires
XIX Century
Epidemias
Funerales
Estado
Buenos Aires
Siglo XIX
author Fiquepron, Maximiliano Ricardo
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title The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)
title_short The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)
title_full The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)
title_fullStr The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)
title_full_unstemmed The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868)
title_sort vice president’s death: epidemics and crises in buenos aires (1867-1868)
description In this article we will discuss the ritual dimension of funerals and its connection with an important event throughout the XIX century: the arrival and spread of cholera epidemics. The argument that we make is that epidemics caused deep social crises, affecting all spheres of social life. These traumatic events generated a double process regarding mortuary rites. On one hand, the most usual rituals were interrupted. On the other, Buenos Aires society developed supplementary rituals so that the deceased could have their funerals. The first section of this paper will present common funeral practices in Buenos Aires and the disruptive characteristics of cholera. We will see that Buenos Aires’s society had an wide and ductile repertoire of funeral practices, and though during the epidemics it would not be possible to let the most common ones happen, some others emerged to mitigate the change in the scenario unleashed by the crisis. The other process was that, in addition to demographic crises, epidemics accentuated political crises and social tensions, which were settled both during and immediately after the epidemics. To this end, a second section will examine the death of cholera of Vice President Marcos Paz during the summer of 1868. We postulate that the State was an essential factor in the tributes to some dead, especially those that allowed redirecting institutional and / or politic conflicts. Thus, our argument is that the rituals were a key element to normalize conflicts that exceeded the demographic crisis alone.
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spelling I15-R237-article-7532020-12-06T00:10:31Z The Vice President’s Death: epidemics and crises in Buenos Aires (1867-1868) La muerte del vicepresidente: epidemias y crisis en Buenos Aires (1867-1868) Fiquepron, Maximiliano Ricardo Epidemics Burials Estate Buenos Aires XIX Century Epidemias Funerales Estado Buenos Aires Siglo XIX In this article we will discuss the ritual dimension of funerals and its connection with an important event throughout the XIX century: the arrival and spread of cholera epidemics. The argument that we make is that epidemics caused deep social crises, affecting all spheres of social life. These traumatic events generated a double process regarding mortuary rites. On one hand, the most usual rituals were interrupted. On the other, Buenos Aires society developed supplementary rituals so that the deceased could have their funerals. The first section of this paper will present common funeral practices in Buenos Aires and the disruptive characteristics of cholera. We will see that Buenos Aires’s society had an wide and ductile repertoire of funeral practices, and though during the epidemics it would not be possible to let the most common ones happen, some others emerged to mitigate the change in the scenario unleashed by the crisis. The other process was that, in addition to demographic crises, epidemics accentuated political crises and social tensions, which were settled both during and immediately after the epidemics. To this end, a second section will examine the death of cholera of Vice President Marcos Paz during the summer of 1868. We postulate that the State was an essential factor in the tributes to some dead, especially those that allowed redirecting institutional and / or politic conflicts. Thus, our argument is that the rituals were a key element to normalize conflicts that exceeded the demographic crisis alone. En el siguiente artículo analizaremos la dimensión ritual de los funerales y su vinculación con un evento muy presente durante todo el siglo XIX: la llegada y la diseminación de sucesivas epidemias de cólera. El argumento que sostenemos es que las mismas provocaron crisis sociales profundas, afectando todas las esferas de la vida social. Este tipo de episodios traumáticos, generó un proceso doble conectado a los ritos mortuorios. Por un lado, trastocaron los rituales más usuales, y por otro, esto ocasionó que la sociedad porteña desplegara otros suplementarios para que los difuntos tuvieran sus funerales. Para ello, en un primer apartado presentaremos las prácticas fúnebres tradicionales en Buenos Aires, así como las características disruptivas del cólera. Asimismo, veremos que la sociedad porteña tenía un repertorio amplio y dúctil de prácticas fúnebres, y si bien ante la epidemia no pudo desarrollar aquellas más habituales, surgieron otras para paliar el cambio en el escenario por la crisis desatada. Pero además de alta mortalidad, estas epidemias acentuaron crisis políticas y tensiones sociales, que se dirimieron tanto durante sus desarrollos como inmediatamente después. Para ello, en un segundo apartado, examinaremos la muerte del vicepresidente Marcos Paz, fallecido de cólera durante el verano de 1868. Postulamos que el Estado será un factor esencial en los homenajes a algunos muertos, sobre todo aquellos que le permitían reencauzar conflictos institucionales y/o políticos. De esta manera, nuestro argumento sostiene que los rituales fueron un elemento central para normalizar conflictos que excedían aquellos más evidentes. Investigaciones Socio-Históricas Regionales (ISHIR) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) 2017-12-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf text/html https://ojs.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/index.php/AvancesCesor/article/view/v14n17a01 10.35305/ac.v14i17.753 Avances del Cesor; Vol. 14 No. 17 (2017): diciembre; 1-19 Avances del Cesor; Vol. 14 Núm. 17 (2017): diciembre; 1-19 2422-6580 1514-3899 spa https://ojs.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/index.php/AvancesCesor/article/view/v14n17a01/793 https://ojs.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/index.php/AvancesCesor/article/view/v14n17a01/864

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