Hermandades en la vega del Tajuña (Madrid)

Abstract

A study of the «hermandades» (brotherhood guilds) in two towns located in the southeast section of the «Comunidad» l Community] of Madrid: Valdilecha and Ambite de Tajuna. Using the basic typological criteria developed by Isidoro Moreno in his work Hermandades de la Baja Andalucia , we observe that the structure of the «hermandades» under consideration reflects such typology, but the same is not true of their functio?ality, since we find in turn communal-vertical-open guilds, performing group functions all along the year, at the sane time that they concern themselves instrumentally with communal functions: finantial support for the feast of the patron saint and singnif icant presence at this occasion of the officers of the guild.