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The text seeks to decode the meaning of the closed eyes used in New Spain portraits of religious women who professed votes under strict orders, especially in the 18th century. With this objective we glimpse the female spirituality Catholicism ha[...]![]()
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One of the peculiarity literary productions of Capuchins in the Seventeenth Century was El ente dilucidado, written by Priest Antonio de Fuentelapeña. It is a composition that pursues a philosophical nature to unravel the nature of metaphysical [...]![]()
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The evangelization of Nueva España begun in 1524, when twelve Franciscan monks led by Martín de Valencia arrived to Yucatán. All of them were wise and experienced. However, their knowledge was not enough to accomplish their mission. To reach the[...]![]()
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This text analyze one of the groups of organized clergy in the archbishopric of Mexico along two generations, from 1680 to 1757. The text centers on the trajectory of two clergy members in order to demonstrate that the relationship to or members[...]![]()
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The author offers a vision of the African population and their castes in Merida, first to dismantle the popularized idea that yucatec and Merida’s identity is the result of the mixing between Spaniards and mayas, forgetting to the African group.[...]![]()
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This paper analyzes the historical experiences of the cimarrones (maroons) in a continental Atlantic borderland between French Guiana and Portuguese America in the eighteenth century. Associating aspects of the Atlantic slave trade— its variatio[...]![]()
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With this article I will try to demonstrate how by the use of written arguments, some members of the Society of Jesus in the Real Audiencia de Quito were trying to counteract the projects of land occupation undertaken by the Portuguese Crown in [...]![]()
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Francisco Hernández was a protagonist, around 1570, of the most important scientific Enterprise of the modern epoch. During his expedition obtained information different to his scientific aim totality. Fact related to modern history and anthropo[...]![]()
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This paper analyzes the interethnic violent events occurred in Los Llanos (Arauca, Casanare and Meta) between 1795 and 1806 when Juan Francisco Parales, the Adelantado, an African-descendant from Barinas, Venezuela, tried two native guahibochiri[...]![]()
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The present paper is about events that happened during the second half of the 18th century in pampa region next to Río de la Plata. During 1770, an Indian called Flamenco was sent to Buenos Aires prison. Inmediately, Vertiz, the governor, took a[...]![]()
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Since the early 16th century, despite some exceptions, most scholars accepted that the oekumene involved three parts (Europe, Asia and Africa), and maps and books displayed America as the fourth part of the world. This idea of “fourth part” reli[...]![]()
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The present article arises from the necessity of clarifying the role of piracy in the history of Hispanic American colonies. This problem is frequently overlooked due not only to common places of popular folklore about pirates, but also to the d[...]![]()
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The purpose of this article is the analysis of medical discourse in relation to the “New World” in the work of the doctor Juan de Cárdenas, Problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias , published around 1591 in New Spain. We propose that the[...]![]()
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This article aims to illuminate the problem of the participation of the members of religious orders and the clergy of the New Granada in the fight for the independence. For this effect, it studies the case of the Dominican friars in Santafé de B[...]![]()
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This article studies the phenomenon of desertion from the Royal Army at the Chilean borders during the 17th Century. It proposes that desertion was caused by a number of factors such as the deficient funding structure of the royal military force[...]![]()
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This article investigates about the process of musical conquest of the Indian towns of the provinces of Tunja and Santafé in Nuevo Reino de Granada during the 17th Century. It analyzes particularly the use of music as a method of evangelization [...]![]()
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The article seeks to demonstrate that not only mining was important in the province of Antioquia, but cattle raising was also flourishing. Bovine livestock and swine were raised and fed in the valleys of Aburrá, Rionegro, Ebéjico, Urrao, and Noq[...]![]()
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This article analyses the creation and functioning of the indigenous archives in the sixteenth-century Yucatan. On the one hand, we will take into account the Spanish Crown’s policy aimed create archives in the Republic of Indians. We will show [...]![]()
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This study is centered in some attempts aimed at the successful implementation of the silk industry in late eighteenth century New Spain. This situation led to the establishment of relations between elements of science, technology and society. A[...]![]()
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The body, a suppressed presence in history, found in the Baroque world its first great locale for selfrepresentation. In the mystic ambience of the Catholic Reform in the 17th century, autobiographical texts written by nuns reflected their effo[...]![]()
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Los recientes proyectos de restauración en monumentos y del patrimonio urbano en general, se han convertido en otro recurso para la investigación histórica, que por su perspectiva interdisciplinaria (iconografía, historia, arquitectura o arqueol[...]![]()
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Enrique, Laura Aylén ; Nacuzzi, Lidia Rosa | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2010-08-16Here we refer to Basilio Villarino, Spanish crown pilot who participated in exploring expeditions in north Patagonia during the late 18th century. We search to underline his attitude while he was trying to accomplish orders given by the superior[...]![]()
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In 16th and 17th century in New Spain, the assault to the personal honor by means of slander was an acceptable cause for beginning a criminal trial. Therefore, it was a social concern about such offenses. In this current article, slander is anal[...]![]()
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This paper analyzes the relations by compadrazgo of the indigenous population of the indigenous people, with the purpose of promoting family strategies aimed at forming clientelism, social mobility and reciprocity alliances between parents and g[...]![]()
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Traditionally, indigenous evangelization has been directly associated with the religious image, context that has turned visual discourse into the link that overcame the language barriers present between the Spanish friars and the natives of the [...]![]()
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The objetive of article is analyse the form that priest Juan de Viera utilized the praise to Mexico’s city and the guadalupanismo as identification elements of novohispan creolism, elements that allow to affirm that capital of the New Spain was [...]![]()
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This article analyzes some of the actions taken by the Spanish Crown with the purpose to advance in the occupation of Patagonia in the middle of the 19th century and to defend the area from possible British invasion. The author frames her work [...]![]()
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This article is part of the field of study of material culture and begins from the idea that everyday objects are a gateway to the understanding of different dynamics and social relations. In this respect, it observes, describes and analyzes the[...]![]()
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In this paper we get into the study of the churches factory of the Indians parishes that existed under Villa Imperial of Potosí jurisdiction, High Perú, during eighteenth century. Thanks to the information provided by these documents some aspect[...]![]()
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This text seeks to require into the importance of religious images for Antioquia Province in the second half of the eighteenth century, based essentially in three central points of analysis: the commercial circuits established for the entry of r[...]![]()
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This article studies the relationship between intendants and cabildos in Concepción, Talca, and Santiago in late seventeenth-century Chile. It analyzes the local elites´ response to the changes in the local governance brought by the new intendan[...]![]()
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May 8th 1813, the Cadiz Constitution was sworn i the city of San Luis Potosi. The ceremony included the placing of a tableau, which was complemented by a series of allegorical figures whose symbolism and form are found in Cesare Ripa’s “Iconolog[...]![]()
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By the end of the 17th century maroon communities existed in several provinces of the jurisdiction of the Audience of New Granada. In 1598 in Zaragoza and in 1607 in Remedios, in the province of Antioquia, black slaves from the mining camps revo[...]![]()
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This article discusses some elements of the trade of efectos de Castilla inside Nueva Granada during the last decades of the eighteenth century. From the analysis of the guides of goods and the collection of alcabala and avería taxes, this paper[...]![]()
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The main objective of this paper is to understand the commercial exchange of imported assets between Maracaibo’s port and the province of Pamplona from 1785 to 1819. It regards how the traffic increased in the early 19th century and was later af[...]![]()
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Las transformaciones del universo rural colombiano en el siglo XIX fueron en gran parte el resultado de migraciones, desde los núcleos poblacionales andinos, hacia las tierras de vertiente de las fronteras. Espontáneos unos y dirigidos otros, am[...]![]()
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The custom of burying the deceased inside churches existed in the Iberian Peninsula since the beginning of christianity. This practice had its roots in the Middle Ages, but its characteristics evolved in such manner, that burials ended up bein[...]![]()
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Benedict Anderson famously described the nation as an “imagined community.” In the municipio of Riosucio, Caldas, succeeding generations of local inhabitants imagined community by elaborating rival narratives of local history. These narratives d[...]![]()
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The fundamental idea of this article is to analyze the process of acquisition of rights and water use and distribution by Spanish and indigenous farmers, around the Nexapa river, in the Izucar valley, Puebla, between 1550 and 1650, in a period o[...]![]()
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This article studies the conflicts in which the slaves of the province of Barbacoas and the natives of the Andean town of Túquerres were involved, with emphasis in the tactics used by both groups that were object of the Borbón reformist policies[...]![]()
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Jiménez Abollado, Francisco Luis ; Ramírez Calva, Verenice Cipatli | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2011-02-11In this article an approach it is considered to the fights by the control and access to the water between the Hispanic and Creole regional elites and the peoples of Indians of the jurisdiction of Tula, in 18th century. It was a fight that really[...]![]()
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For almost two centuries, the Buga and Cartago councils maintained a complex jurisdictional dispute. The peculiarity of this case is that although both cities were subject to the government of Popayán, their limits marked the confines of the Roy[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the processes of expropriation and repossession of urban property in Peru during the 19th century, using as a case study the Convento de la Buenamuerte, a small male religious order established in Lima since the end of the [...]![]()
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This article analyzes the criticism to the Inquisition by various social sectors of the viceroy of New Spain, and its meanings. The author studies the 17th century and the early 18th century and uses the concept of ’opinion movement’ to prove th[...]![]()
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In 1703 the capuchin Isidoro of Seville announced the invocation of the Divina Pastora in the public rosary of a Sevillian procession. Quickly the town adopted the devotion to the image painted by Alfonso Miguel de Tovar, at the expense of the o[...]![]()
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The Seven Years’ War (1754-1763) demonstrated to the Spanish Crown the urgency to strengthen defense in strategic territories. The tension between Spain and Portugal led the Bourbon government to strengthen resources for the defense of its domai[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the role of certain literary works in the historic and cultural recreation of Guatemala. It seeks to show some of the intertextual linkages between them, as well as evidencing the weight of traditions bequeathed by creole d[...]![]()
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This article studies how in the kingdom of Nueva Galicia the breeding of cattle was developed intensively during the seventeenth century, wich allowed it to easily cover domestic consumption demand and orient its surpluses to other markets in Ne[...]![]()
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Letelier Cosmelli, Javiera ; Goldschmidt Levinsky, Dafna | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2019-07-01With the Spanish conquest social norms were restructured. This implied negotiation in power and strategies of resistance in which different social agents took part, articulated in a border context at the beginning of the Colonial Period. This pa[...]![]()
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La comprensión de las ideas políticas en el contexto colonial hispanoamericano radica en buena parte en la articulación de ellas a las instituciones que las forjaron. Dicha comprensión constituye un trabajo arduo y complejo en la medida en que s[...]![]()
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The relative tranquil life led by the Judaizers of the District of Castelo Branco ended in the spring of 1579 with the arrival of the Inquisitor Marcos Teixeira, who urged the inhabitants to denounce heretics. Consequently, the inquisitorial rep[...]![]()
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In March-September 1813 the typhus epidemic crossed the parish jurisdiction of San Pablo Apetatitlan, a dangerous disease that caused the deaths of more than two hundred people of the Spanish, mestizo and indigenous ethnic groups. Although the f[...]![]()
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In equal parts the criticisms made by Ian S. Mclean in his review of the book "Inca bodies and the body of Christ: the Corpus Christi in colonial Cuzco", by Carolyn Dean, raised a debate over postcolonial and subaltern studies that took place be[...]![]()
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Noejovich, Héctor Omar ; Salles, Estela Cristina | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2006-12-07The article suggests a revision of the traditional historical discourse based on an analysis of the origins of the “mita toledana" that contrasts paradigms constructed on the hypotheses of economic exploitation of the indigenous population. It q[...]![]()
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Tourres, Luisina Inés ; Nacuzzi, Lidia Rosa | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2019-07-01We seek to analyze the case of the offering of military aid made by caciques of the Pampa to the Cabildo of Buenos Aires during the occupation of the city by British troops in 1806. We located this episode within the history of interethnic relat[...]![]()
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This essay seeks to answer the question: Is the concept of the frontier still viable in examining the history of the Llanos in the twenty first century?, by reviewing first, the evolution of frontier historiography in the United States; second, [...]![]()
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The drawing of the national border in the north of Portuguese America, today known as the Amazon, has not received significant enough of a treatment by Brazilian historiography. Through gathering and analyzing materials from a wide variety of so[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the discourses and representations about black slavery in the domestic space of Chile during the period of 1750-1820. Inside these practices and representations we find that, although slaves were reduced to object quality b[...]![]()
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In the first decade of the 19th century the inhabitants of Cali suffered an epidemic of dysentery that decimated its most vulnerable population. In this article, we seek to describe a demographic cridetected from the curves of deaths obtained fr[...]![]()
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El estudio de dos legajos encontrados en el Archivo de Indias de Sevilla permite analizar algunos aspectos de la condición social del funcinamiento del rango medio en la Nueva Granada y de las dificultades vividas por las familias después de su [...]![]()
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El 13 de enero de 1625, en Santafé, el arzobispo Fernando Arias de Ugarte firmó la escritura de fundación del convento de Santa Clara, concebido por él como una obra pía para doncellas virtuosas, honradas y de limpia sangre. Para ello destinó 40[...]![]()
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