Legitimidad e ilegitimidad en los nacimientos de blancos rioplatenses: indicador de aceptación a las normas socio-culturales de la Iglesia y el Estado
It is well known that illegitimate births in Latin America were a constant throughout their societies both urban and rural, and which was submitted in both castes and among the white population but with differences in sociocultural levels. The River Plate did not escape this permissive behaviour of...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/41504 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/41504 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | History of the population Rural population Baptisms Births Conceptions Legitimacy Illegitimacy River Plate Historia de la población Población rural Bautizos Nacimientos Concepciones Legitimidad Ilegitimidad Río de la Plata |
| Sumario: | It is well known that illegitimate births in Latin America were a constant throughout their societies both urban and rural, and which was submitted in both castes and among the white population but with differences in sociocultural levels. The River Plate did not escape this permissive behaviour of its inhabitants, however, the region under consideration, the payment of the Coast, shows some peculiarities. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the rate of births or Spanish targets in the payment of the Coast between 1731 and 1757, whereas the proportion of legitimacy to establish variables that lead to knowledge of the socio-cultural behaviour of that core population. Analyze family structures in the light of increased birth through legitimate and illegitimate births, as well as reach some interpret patterns of sexuality that pampeana confluent or not in marriage and the constitution of a family, constitute the fundamental interest this work. The illegitimate births are more a social phenomenon that demographic. Indeed, statistics on illegitimacy are critical to understand the collective attitudes about marriage and sexual morality, and translate the importance of pressure from the Church. Legal constraints and social marriages of different ethnic background or economic constituted the main cause of the percentage of children exposed to natural or public charity. In Latin America, from the Conquest, the complex process of evangelization and the imposition of Catholic marriage took place on a very heterogeneous culture. Different patterns ethno-cultural patterns differently relations between men and women, and of course, also the way they conceived marriage and the family. In this context, where the white population Spanish-and Creole-dominated pattern family is very close to Europe, late age at marriage, few children and a minimum level of illegitimacy in births. A model similar to this took place among the mestizo population, perhaps because of their interest resemble the population still in their cultural behaviours. It is therefore not surprising to note in the payment of the Coast a model closer to the European family, especially if records of white and mestizo population in question. The high levels of illegitimacy, which tended to grow over time to become more evident in the first third of the nineteenth century, were associated with companies having a population of caste and color. |
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