Biography of the guadalupan "exvoto"

Abstract

The votive offerings are pictographic materials that were made to ask, thank and attest to the miraculous power (Faser, 2000), in this case of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Their ritual practice is carried out within a system of votive practices that take place in the system of popular Catholic religion. But in addition to this original sense, the votive offerings have been valued by collectors and art lovers as aesthetic works (as the Frida Kalho collection shows), but they have also been considered by anthropologists and historians as testimonies of the period (see the works of Patricia Arias and Jorge Durand, 2003). In this book Margarita Zires takes them up again as social texts that can be interpreted and analyzed as discursive genres.