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Despite the many mentions that traditional historiography has made about the Pijao people about the war that they carried out between the 16th and 17th centuries, very little is known about their society, customs and way of subsistence. Consider[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the discourses and representations deployed around the diseases attributed to the indigenous confined to the Viceroyalty of Peru for the period 1570 – 1600 in the Geographical Relations of the Indies, and some contemporarie[...]![]()
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This article studies two Colonial celebrations: the Jura de los Reyes and the Paseo del Pendón Real. The main purpose is demonstrate that the convention/ protocol that was observed in these two celebrations, prevailed in the civic commemorations[...]![]()
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This article explores the work of Aristotle and Alonso de Sandoval, a 17th century Jesuit, specifically the latter’s Tractatus de Instauranda de Aethiopum Salute (1627), in order to compare the concept of slavery held by this Greek philosopher w[...]![]()
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Here we intend to examine the concept of tradition taking as a starting point the comparison between two groups of seemingly different texts: 1) the anthropological problem: the appearance of the traditions called "invented" in the islands of th[...]![]()
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This article assesses, from a critical standpoint, the widespread use of the word mestizo among scholars to single out images that existed but were not produced in Santiago de Chile during the Colonial period, but imported from the main centers[...]![]()
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In the second half of the 17th century the crew of the Spanish fleets and galleons sailing to the Indies and back was forced to hire foreign captains, pilots and sailors despite the existing prohibition. A number of them came from enemy nations [...]![]()
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This text examines the various ways in which civil servants and church officials perceived the indigenous people of Yucatan during the colonial period. This image of the Mayans from the perspective of their colonial rulers will broaden our pictu[...]![]()
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Entre los estudiosos de la historia colonial y aún de la republicana es común que la sola mención de la palabra resguardo se asocie con las tierras comunales de cultivo asignadas a las comunidades indígenas de la Nueva Granada durante el período[...]![]()
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The order of the labor force advanced by Francisco de Toledo for the Viceroyalty of Peru (1574) imposed for the Africans and their free descendants the obligation to settle with known masters under remunerated subordination with the objective of[...]![]()
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En misiva emitida el 17 de julio de 1647, el Inquisidor General y los señores de la Suprema comunicaban al doctor Don Pedro de Medina Rico, inquisidor apostólico del reino de Sevilla, la provisión del cargo como visitador del Tribunal del Santo [...]![]()
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This paper explores the issues of providing priest assistants to parishes. These clergy gained more relevance during the 18th century due to the conservation of large parishes and population growth. The priests had more difficulties to meet the [...]![]()
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This articles examines the increasing presence of mestizos outlaws in the Mapuche frontier in the region of Bío-Bío during the second half of the 18th century, and the development of a joint policy of social ordering coordinated between Mapuche [...]![]()
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This article examines whether ecological complementarity was part of the political economy of Chitagoto chiefdom —located in Eastearn Andes of Colombia— when Spaniards arrived in sixteenth century through the revision of ethnohistorical informat[...]![]()
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The article analyzes the Pedro Claver canonization process which shows his work of evangelizing African people in Cartagena de Indias during the 17th Century. The main objective is to understand the saint’s utility in the identity formation in t[...]![]()
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Peralta Ruíz, Víctor ; Moreno Cebrián, Alfredo | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2018-02-28This article deals with the political trajectory of an enlightened creole, the lawyer Pedro Vicente Cañete, and its opposition to the autonomist processes that erupted in Montevideo, Charcas, La Paz and Buenos Aires in the context of the crisis [...]![]()
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Through the qualitative analysis of archival sources on the Pijao Indians and their language, and information that allows to contextualize those materials, this article aims to reconsider the group’s role in the configuration of the Colonial soc[...]![]()
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This paper focuses on elucidating the residual remains of several Pre-Columbian buildings in Mexico City throughout the decades that followed the conquest in 1521. During the entire 16th-century, a limited number of ancient, little-sized altars [...]![]()
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Desde un punto de vista normativo, plantear el papel de los oficiales de la Real Hacienda en relación con la economía colonial puede parecer un camino de investigación suficientemente conocido. Muchos considerarán que con el trabajo pionero, aún[...]![]()
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Considering that most discussions regarding the “linguistic turn” have remained in the theoretical universe, the discourse typology will be put in practice by using the concrete example offered by the textual representation of the taking of Cart[...]![]()
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The involvement of clerics in all public affairs was a natural and inevitable consequence of their importance in late colonial society. They were involved in different ways in the juntista Hispanic American movement between 1808 and 1810, and en[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the demographic development of the Province of Tunja during the first century of Spanish domination. An effort is made towards estimating the size of the indigenous population at the time of Conquest, while at the same time[...]![]()
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This article studies the Retrato del abate Antonio José Cavanilles, director del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (1801-1804) painted by Salvador Rizo Blanco. This analysis takes a look at the painting’s fragments in order to examine its structure[...]![]()
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This research attempts to present a journey through the different methods New-Spain art historiography has approached the corporate portraiture phenomenon inscribed in the female monastic context, displaying a general overview of the issues that[...]![]()
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In this article I point out some of the ambivalences of the transition period from colonial rule to the republican model, particularly the ones related to the dispute over the sources of law in the process of institutional modernization which ha[...]![]()
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This essay analyzes the tax structure and the evolution of expenditure and income flows of the Royal Treasury of Santafé de Bogotá in the interim period of independence wars. It compares a previous fiscal evolution (1760-1815) with a later one ([...]![]()
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El 15 de septiembre de 1821, el antiguo reino de Guatemala se declaró independiente de su metrópoli, una metrópoli cansada que veía con frustración cómo se le escapaba su propia América española. En la Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, los signata[...]![]()
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The article analyzes how different kinds of insurgency were developed at Huasteca, in the northeastern part of New Spain, through indigenous participation. Looking for arise the discussion on a number of general ideas that have been developed wi[...]![]()
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The role of women in the Mexican war of independence remains relatively obscure. The principal Spanish reaction to women’s participation in the wars for independence was to confine them in casas de recogidas, reformatory-style houses of correcti[...]![]()
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Las relaciones entre redes personales y capitales institucionales, están en el centro de reflexión de este artículo. Tomando como ejemplo el papel de quien fuera tesorero de la Real Hacienda de Quito en las décadas de 1730 y 1740, quisiera argum[...]![]()
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The use of blue agave in the region of Tequila for the production and commercialization of mescal wine has been wrongly considered by some researchers of the topic since the sixteenth century. This article will analyze the use of the land in the[...]![]()
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El rey Carlos III, en carta del 26 de Mayo de 1771, dirigida al Comisario General de Indias de la Orden de San Francisco, señalaba los objetivos de la Visita que en esos momentos se proponía adelantar a las diferentes comunidades religiosas, est[...]![]()
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This article examines the representations of and practices regarding precious stones during the first two and a half decades of Castilian expansion in America, in light of the printed sources of the period, especially De Orbe Novo Decades by Pet[...]![]()
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In 1824. toward the end of the Wars of Independence (1820-1825), Hiram Paulding, an English traveler reached Peru's Central Highlands. One ofhis stops was at the small town [villorio] of Gulcán, where he met its Gobernador and Alcalde.![]()
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Tovar Pinzón, Hermes ; Álvarez, Víctor ; Melo, Jorge Orlando ; Meisel Roca, Adolfo | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 1997-12-26Mesa Redonda en la que participaron los profesores Víctor Álvarez M., Jorge Orlando Melo, Adolfo Meisel y Hermes Tovar, celebrada el 24 de abril de 1997 con motivo de la inauguración del Centro de Investigaciones de Historia Colonial.![]()
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The text presented aims to analyze the construction process of the Cathedral of Santa Marta during the eighteenth century. Although a series of necessary antecedents will be raised to clarify what happened during the 18th century, the interventi[...]![]()
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The purpose of this article is to establish the general outlines of the organization of the production of wealth in the Grão-Pará during the Pombal period, taking into account the various characters intervening in the process: indians, mestizos,[...]![]()
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This paper studies the daily lives of those hundreds of men from different areas of New Spain (and even other areas of the Indian space) that were ostracized and sent periodically from the port of Acapulco (New Spain) to the Philippines and the [...]![]()
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. En el Perú nadie se definiría como racista. Sin embargo, las categorías raciales no sólo tiñen sino que a veces condicionan nuestra percepción social. Están presentes en la conformación de grupos profesionales, en los mensajes que transmiten l[...]![]()
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This article show how during 1750 and 1810, the slaves in Santiago de Cali, searched their freedom using a type of common law, his own money and legal instruments of the Spanish laws. The restraint (coartación) was one of the ways that slaves us[...]![]()
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Based on the analysis of the population composition of Santa María valley (Argentine Northwest) during the 18th century, the aim of this paper is to rethink the problem of socio-ethnic classifications. In that sense, while focusing our proposal [...]![]()
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This article offers a detailed analysis of the complex foreign policy program of the Supreme Junta of Quito in 1809. It also examines the means used by the revolutionary authorities in order to put the program into practice, and the reasons of t[...]![]()
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This article analyzes an alboroto (uprising) in a new town in the periphery of the diocese of Buenos Aires at the end of the eighteenth century: Gualeguay, in the Entre Ríos southeast. This article focuses in some of the procedures and discourse[...]![]()
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This article is the result of a doctoral thesis research conducted in several colonial archives about Jesuit Missions on the eastern frontier of the New Kingdom of Granada during the 17th and 18th centuries. The objective is to understand how th[...]![]()
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This work compares the arguments of a university cloister on the no necessity of the clergy to receive university degrees, with the request of a bishop to turn its seminary into university. Although the cloister denied that the clergymen needed [...]![]()
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En el siglo XVI Felipe II creó el Tribunal de la Inquisición de Lima cuya jurisdicción era continental. Tal amplitud jurisdiccional hizo que fuera incapaz de atender debidamente todos los casos de su competencia. Ésta fue una de las razones para[...]![]()
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This article explores the role of land inspections ( visitas a la tierra ) in the creation of indigenous territories in a peripheral area of Nueva Granada known as Vega de Supía (present-day Riosucio and Supía, Caldas). It claims that whereas ea[...]![]()
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da Silva Lima, Alam ; Chambouleyron, Rafael ; Camargo Igliori, Danilo | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2009-08-14This article analyses how the absence of metallic currency influenced the economy and society of Portuguese colonial Amazonia (from the mid-17th until the mid-18th (centuries). It also focuses on the reasons why the Crown forbade the use of meta[...]![]()
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On the basis of the study of the proceedings of a trial started by a slave woman and her husband against the family of her dead master, and of the contradictions emerging from the litigants’ declarations, this article intends to make some reflec[...]![]()
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Setting a new method of interpretation for the study of the Colonial economy, this article analyzes the correlation between slave exploitation and the economic characterization of the New Granada during 17th century. This explanation model is su[...]![]()
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This article explain why the habitants of Eastern border in New Spain did not choose the armed struggle as their main strategy to confront the colonial power. It suggests that the habitants of the four provinces took advantage of living in a bor[...]![]()
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This paper focuses on the social dynamics of the deserters from the Blandengues armed force in the three last decades of the 18th century. As Buenos Aires struggled to manage multiple frontiers, the local interests overlapped with those of the m[...]![]()
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This work examines the relationship between social history and the history of the Church and religiosity taking New Spain as an example. More than an exhaustive analysis, we have focused on the dominant trends during the last two decades of the [...]![]()
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This paper studies a brief period of time since the arrival of the first printing press to the Kingdom of Chile until the end of the “Patria Nueva” (New Nation) in 1823. Due to its brevity, this period allows us to understand which cultural prac[...]![]()
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This text seeks to analyze, in a comparative manner, the ways in which the inquisitorial proceedings were presented against the Solicitantes in the courts of the Spanish Inquisition in America during the seventeenth century, in a context where t[...]![]()
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This article deals, on a preliminary level, with the compilation and analysis of the legislation promoted in Sonora for the government of the indians since 1830, when the state of Sonora was created. The analysis ends in 1853, year in which the [...]![]()
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This essay analyzes a case study illustrating the reception of the Subaltern Studies analytical perspective, originally developed by the Indian Subaltern Studies Group, by Latin American scholars, and especially, by the Latin American Subaltern [...]![]()
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Currently the argument that a war juncture serves to appreciate the interests and motivations of the social groups involved in it, is key to the study processes of the independence in Latin America. In that sense, this research analyzes the war [...]![]()
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Durante la larga presencia de España en América pocos temas ocuparon mayor atención de las autoridades que el trato dispensado a los indios y lo relacionado con el servicio personal, que si por un lado prueba la limitada eficacia de la legislaci[...]![]()
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This essay outlines the demographic history of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay, offering new insights based on a comparative approach. It argues that demographic patterns in the Guarani missions were unique, when compared to missions on other fr[...]![]()
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This article examines the extended legal corpus cited in a Memorial addressed to the king, written by an enlightened soldier at the end of the 18th century, whose purpose is to protest against the persecution of a few Creoles suspected of collab[...]![]()
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Vega, Alejandra ; Guerra Araya, Natalie | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2015-03-16This article discusses the dressing practices of indigenous women and babies, more specifically, the use of garments identified as chumpi or girdles. The analysis focuses on the cities of Potosí and La Plata, between the 16th and 17th centuries[...]![]()
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The purpose of this article is to study the changes and continuities of taxation in Caracas between 1750 and 1845, caused by government policy and economic activities of the city. As a result of this, it has been found that the dependence on cu[...]![]()
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This paper addresses the process of extinction of the “resguardo” of Sogamoso and the creation of the parish of white people between 1777 and 1810. Following two spots: the progressive miscegenation, which consolidated the neighbors as an emergi[...]![]()
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After the second half of the 18th century, a series of prints called Stranger’s Guides were printed for the first time in Spanish America. These were small directories that registered the Spanish administration’s structure in America, and which [...]