Abstract
The Santafe viceroyalty was a landscape in which a courtesan order was deployed, and the political, social, and moral implications involved every inhabitant without exception. The order needed to legitimize itself through a set of traditions and customs that, due to the inexperience of this young viceroyal, engaged a set of dispositions and generated fights and confrontations about clothing, making it the target of permanent vigilance. In its representations, it evidently laid a double connotation. On the one hand, it has a set of attributes that indicated attention and obedience to the worldly and heavenly hierarchies, and on the other hand, it was part of the social categories. In its representation the plurality of interpretations involved permanent productions of meanings, shifting in the changing power of social configurations and it opened up new paths to the attainment of virtue and nobility for inhabitants of Santafe.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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