“Thief, Filthy Pig, Dog, Unworthy”. Insulting removal of a teacher. Burucuyá-Corrientes, 1788.

Abstract

This writing comes from the transcription of a document from the Historical Archive of the Argentine Nation, which contains a request to Viceroy Marquis of Loreto from preceptor/teacher Bartolomé Soria from Burucuyá City- Corrientes- in 1788 because of insulting removal of his position from the ruler Mr Juan Solís with punches and insults such as “Thief, Filthy Pig, Dog, Unworthy”. The archive material allows us to understand some features of colonial notes with double logic: bureaucratic and pastoral. And it makes how tasks of teaching profession, sacristan, assistant to parochial priests, custodian (scribe?) of parochial books, in charge of cleaning, keeping churches, being religious content preponderance, teaching Spanish, providing financial support of teachers’ neighbours. The seven parts of the document tries to reconstruct views about educational purpose and teaching profession of four different social actors.