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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[...]texto impreso
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 [...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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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.[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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 [...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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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 [...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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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 [...]texto impreso
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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[...]texto impreso
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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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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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[...]texto impreso
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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[...]texto impreso
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 [...]texto impreso
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 [...]texto impreso
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 [...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso
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[...]texto impreso