El paisaje religioso en un partido rural de la Provincia de Maracaibo, Venezuela, durante el siglo XVIII: La Cañada de Allá Dentro

Abstract

An approximation is made to the material culture in the rural district of La Cañada de Allá Dentro, Province of Maracaibo, Venezuela, during the 18th century at the scale of the religious landscape. Understanding material culture as the tangible expression of culture that creates meaning and is active in the constitution of social relations, we investigate the role that catholic religion could have played in the construction of the local landscape as an inhabited and meaningful space, which actively produced and reproduced identities and social practices. Considering that at the time a chapel existing in the place would have been the focus of the religious landscape, the formal aspects of said chapel are studied and a reconstructive hypothesis of the same is proposed based on documentary sources and the known typology of religious buildings in the region.