Re/Making La Negrita
Culture as an Aesthetic System in Costa Rica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2464267 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Russell Leigh Sharman (Brooklyn College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 842-853 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2006.108.4.842 |
| OpenAlex | W2035176339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 30 |
In this article, I examine the production of meaning in the veneration of La Negrita, the black Madonna and patroness of Costa Rica. Both an apparition and an icon, La Negrita is a 20-centimeter, dark-colored statue of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a mulata girl on the outskirts of the colonial city of Cartago in 1635. Throughout the ensuing 400 years, La Negrita has been remade in the image of hegemony, even as the experience of her perceived power has challenged that ideological and coercive project. Through an analysis of this historical progression, I argue for a theory of culture as an aesthetic system, where the egalitarianism of experience is always in conflict with the authoritarianism of meaning
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Authoritarianism · Colonialism · Democracy · Egalitarianism · Ethnology · Hegemony · Icon · Ideology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
The phenomenology of aesthetic experience.
Writing Culture
Anthropology Art and Aesthetics
The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology
Distinction
Blackness and Race Mixture
Gauguin, Negrín and the Art of Anthropology
Duke versus Tito
Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica
A evolução urbana durante a Alta Idade Média
Quem foi o primeiro descobridor do Rio da Prata e da Argentina
The Aesthetic Experience
The Caribbean Carretera
Getting to Know the Unknown Soldier
Art and Criticism
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Costa Rica and Civilization in the Caribbean
Black and Part-Black Populations in Colonial Costa Rica
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
The selling of San Juan
The Virgin of Guadalupe in New Spain
Re/Making La Negrita
Blackness, the Racial/Spatial Order, Migrations, and Miss Ecuador 1995-96
Peasants Against Globalization
Asymptote of the Ineffable
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |