The Sparkle of the Glass Beads in New Spain from the Language Experience
Abstract
This work reflects on the meaning of glass beads in the Hispanic monarchy, founded on their linguistic expressions. It is based on the idea developed by sociologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann that reality is constructed through social and language interaction to approach the different areas in which these objects participated in the daily life of New Spain. In this way, it is intended to contribute to decolonial turn and to provide a broader understanding of the meaning of these objects from the first globalization. At that time the expressions of Castilian took new forms under the flow of important intercultural changes that historians and anthropologists fail to capture. Changing the focus and incorporating the analysis of the language to interpret the semantic load of these objects in the past, provide new perspectives under which to understand the diffusion and use of these adornments.
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