En la sociedad zalameña de la seguunda mitad del siglo XVIII, perfectamente jerarquizada, seguía manteniéndose el ritual funerario barroco, encontrándose diferencias tanto a nivel de grupos sociales como de sexo de los otorgantes. Las clases populares intentaron emular, en la medida de los posible, la ostentación de los grupos privilegiados, y fueron las mujeres las que lo perpetuaron de una manera más eficaz, ya que sobre ellas era mayor la influencia de los clérigos que residían en la villa, entre otras cosas.__________________________________In a society like Zalamea's, which was
entirely hierarchical, during the
second half of the XVIIIth century,
the baroque ritual of funeral
ceremonies was still maintained, so
it is possible to find differences in
terms of both social groups and sex.
Lower classes would try to imitate,
as far as possible, the ostentation of
the privileged, and it was women that
would accomplish the ritual more
effectively, partly because they were
more influenced by the high number
el clergymen who lived in the village
