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ACUNA, Juan. Stigma and sacraments during the colonial period. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2012, vol.22, n.57, pp.9-30. ISSN 1315-9496.

Venezuelan colonian society was marked by a rigit character in social mobility, their customs visibly differentiated from one another. The task of this article to describe and compare sewn for the unique ethno-social and sacrament life of the castes, estates and classes of whites, indians, blacks and whites. In this sense, the methodological rigor hat employment is bibliographic and documentary of the same body of theory was structured in two parts, one dedicated to social stigmas and another to the sacraments of baptism, catechism and marriages. The study attempts to find variables sociological and anthropological nature embedded in the secrecy of colonial society, where the privileged White elite schools, public offices, work and marital union, marked the difference over the other strata and ethnic-social categories the esconded dedicated to hard work and menial and other conditions of life imposed by the civil order, and mainly by the Church during the long colonial period.

Palabras clave : caste; estates; sacramental life.

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