Resumen

RAMIREZ, MARÍA HIMELDA. The discourse about infant abandonment in the baroque society of Santa Fe de Bogotá in the 17th century. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2006, n.4, pp.203-216. ISSN 1794-2489.

This article refers to the discourses about child abandonment that circulated in Santafe de Bogota during the first half of the 17th century, in the context of redefinition of feelings towards childhood and the revaluation of maternal love. The work also studies indigenous solidarity in cases of abandonment and orphaned children of different ethnical backgrounds, as well as the protective image of the enslaved wet nurses.

Palabras clave : Abandonment; maternity; colonial history; childhood history; women history.

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