Abstract

DIPIERRI, José E.. Filiation and cultural history: thematic confluences and divergences. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2004, n.24, pp.63-104. ISSN 1668-8104.

With the purpose of evaluating the empirical and documentary value of filiation expedients to analyze some of the themes that constitute the points of interest of cultural history, such as the connections betweens the popular and elites cultures, the history of the mentalities, the cultural hegemony, etc., the legal phenomenon of the claim of filiation is examined.    The information proceeds from both, the demands expedients of natural filiation of the Jujuy File Courts corresponding to the period between 1900 to 1925 and the legal texts of the same period that comment the Title V of the Argentine Civil Code that legislates this demand.    From this preliminary and temporarily limited investigation the subject of the filiation is revealed as a fertile field for the present interests of the cultural history, from both the methodological and theoretical point of view. In this work some aspects of the confluences and derivations observed in the filiation subject, since the anthropological and social perspective of the cultural history, are indicated. Each one of them requires a greater bibliographical, theoretical, analytic and interpretative deepening.    Between 1900 and 1925 in the province of Jujuy, in spite of the high illegitimate children percentage, the demand of filiation does not constitute a socially acceptable practice. Despite that it is legally possible, the same one is limited by moral and religious factors, more repressive for the women. It is excluded neither in specific social sectors, nor especially in those rural and less modernised, the illegitimacy does not form part of the imaginary and representations of these societies. From the analysis of a private case it is hypothesised, that probably in this period the existing social order cannot be explained only by a plan of dominant versus dominated classes. On the contrary cracks among the social and symbolic domination are detected, from the appropriation of the legality, and through this way of the legitimacy, on the part of certain sectors of the dominated classes.    The monitoring of the evolution of the filiation history in the province of Jujuy, with the theoretical and methodological linkings proposed in this work, will be able to contribute new data to analyze the continuance and the cultural changes of this legal, cultural, and social category, in the Jujuy society.

Keywords : Filiation; Cultural History; Jujuy.

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