La colonización del tiempo y la vida cotidiana en un poblado de frontera mexicano. Los calendarios étnicos en San Luis Potosí

Abstract

In a city with deep roots in the colonial era, the sense of time and its impact on the daily lives of its inhabitants is anchored firmly on a pace set by the calendar, as an order of time. In the present-day city of San Luis Potosi, the ritual use of the calendar is a feature inherited from the days when the town was under Spanish rule and was organized in a Hispanic center and a periphery formed by the towns and neighborhoods of Indians and people of mixed blood. The purpose of this article is to examine the cultural uses of the calendar in the colonial city of San Luis Potosi. We start from the assumption that an almanac is understood as a tool for perceiving time, but also for influencing everyday life, which allows us to understand the society that uses it as a whole.