Tiempo y ritual. Una aproximación al análisis de las representaciones del orden en la sociedad colonial(Gobernación del Tucumán, siglos XVII y XVIII)

This exploratory work constitutes an approach to the analysis of time experiences y meanings that were implies in social order representation according to the lives and perspectives of the vecinos and government functionaries in Indias during the colonial period. We intend to develop a comparative study of the cabildo and juicio de residencia institutions, based on the exam of a set of government and justice documents relative to the Tucumán province during XVII and XVIII centuries, and organized upon to tow central questions. On one side, we are interested on how two different time experience –a local and ordinary time, and another time that we called regal and ritual- were configured and articulated; and on the other side, we explore in which way the formal and traditional character of the practices that were performed by the cabildantes and the juicio de residencia participants in the institutional contexts, contributed to elaborate a representation of the social order characterized for its great stability and long lasting existence.