The body back to the Earth…, in Cordoba del Tucuman. Funerary Traditions in XVI – XIX Centuries

La necesidad material y espiritual de enterrar los cadáveresen Córdoba del Tucumán, tanto en el período de dominioespañol como luego de las independencias, implicó el desarrollode una serie de costumbres sepulcrales, similares a lasque se cumplieron en el resto del Nuevo Mundo.En los siglos XVI, XVII YXVIII se enterró dentro de las iglesias oen cementerios vecinos a ellas, en espacios determinados La necesidad material y espiritual de enterrar los cadáveresen Córdoba del Tucumán, tanto en el período de dominioespañol como luego de las independencias, implicó el desarrollode una serie de costumbres sepulcrales, similares a lasque se cumplieron en el resto del Nuevo Mundo.En los siglos XVI, XVII YXVIII se enterró dentro de las iglesias oen cementerios vecinos a ellas, en espacios determinadosThe material and spiritual necessity to bury corpses in Córdoba del Tucumán, not only in the period of Spanish dominion, but also after independences, implied the development of a series of burial costums, similar to the ones which were fulfilled in the rest of the New World. In the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries, burials were done inside churches or in neighboring cemeteries, in certain spaces that acquired a singular meaning in relation to “the further on”. During the Seven hundred, the Borbones impelled the construction of cemeteries in open places, what took shape in the city in mid-XIX century, when de plague forced to accelerate the burials. The information required by the monarchs to the respective authorities, contain a series of constructive specifications that show the architectonic and economic conception that they elaborated