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Pérez Zavala, Graciana ; Tamagnini, Marcela | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2012-02-08From the late eighteenth century, the south of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, was pierced by a military line of forts and fortresses called to leave a deep mark in the region not only because its facilities delimited the geographical portio[...]![]()
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In Yucatan there are three collateral altarpieces that show a peculiar model characterized by the use of anthropomorphic caryatid-shaped columns. These breaks with the classic canons used by Vitrubio’s work in Europe and New Spain. At the presen[...]![]()
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This article characterizes pharmaceutical spaces of the first half of the 17th century. The analysis of knowledge and practice, places and techniques that made the system work, allows us to describe and explain the dynamics of production, circul[...]![]()
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This investigation approaches the invisible figure corresponding to the secretary of the Bishop, a crucial member of the so called “family” of the prelate, considered as part of the intimate circle and a trustworthy figure. The secretary was the[...]![]()
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This paper attempts to retrieve the history of the Militia known as Blandengues de la Frontera of Buenos Aires in the frame of the military reforms undertaken by the Bourbons in America. This particular experience of militarization was character[...]![]()
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This article is a historiographic review that approaches the construction of the body of the king and of his public image to understand the relation between power and legitimacy in the Hispanic Monarchy between the XVIth to XVIIth centuries. The[...]![]()
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The availability of natural resources provides us with explanations about the eventual outcome of the negotiations over a frontier. In many ways, the availability or lack of resources is responsible for the structures and patterns of most of the[...]![]()
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This article addresses the iconography of anthropophagic rituals amongst the Tupinambá indians. More specifically, it examines five engravings by engraver and reformist editor Theodore de Bry for his Americae Tertia Pars (1592), where the death,[...]![]()
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This article aims to analyze the mechanisms of promotion and advancement in the Cathedral Chapter of Puebla (New Spain) between 1814 and 1820. Doing so, it tries to document the way the political changes of the period affected the relationship b[...]![]()
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This paper reconstructs and analyzes the historical memories about the conquest and colonization of Pénjamo, a village that in the XVIth century consolidated and defended the frontier of the New Spain against the “Chichimeca” Indians. The author[...]![]()
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The Barefoot Carmelites came to America looking for disseminate a Monarchist and Catholic value system. In order to achieve that, they promoted the establishment of their confraternities in Nueva España at the end of the seventeenth century, wit[...]![]()
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the introduction of European crops –such as wheat and barley among others– into the actual Argentinean Northwest territory during the early Spanish conquest in the second half of XVI and XVII centuries. We[...]![]()
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The supply of towns and cities was one of the essential functions of municipal councils. It was conceived that its efficient administration ensured the common good and the public tranquility. This article studies the official and surreptitious p[...]![]()
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Herrera García, Francisco Javier ; Sánchez, José María | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2013-09-25Mexico’s cathedral construction, mostly completed in 1667, led to an interesting debate about the main altar ideal location: in the transept or near the apse, in accordance with the spanish cathedrals. Finally, the ecclesiastical authorities pre[...]![]()
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Since the 1940’s, several Jesuit historians have analyzed the topic of the lack of representation of the Hispanic American Church in the Council of Trent. The explanation they offer centers on the objective barriers, such as the absolute requir[...]![]()
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Noejovich, Héctor Omar ; Salles, Estela Cristina | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2004-12-27This article analyzes the crown encomiendas in the province of Chucuito (Perú), a prior settlement of the kingdom of Lupaqa,a space that never had an encomendero. Consequently, the tribute in goods and services that is characteristic of pre-Tole[...]![]()
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This paper is based on the qualitative analyses of the data contained in the libros de cuentas, Ingenio San Nicolás Tolentino, México, in 1694. The present analyses, if is based on the classical perspective of the social and economic history (as[...]![]()
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Noejovich, Héctor Omar ; Salles, Estela Cristina | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2011-08-02This article attempts to rebuild the extension of the Vice-royalty of Peru with jurisdiction from Panama to Tierra del Fuego, from its own organizational standpoint regarding its defense, which allowed it to achieve a certain degree of autonomy [...]![]()
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The local government houses of the Viceroyalty, known as Casas Reales, were one of the most important civil spaces in the new world. Since its establishment in 1592, the city of San Luis Potosí did not have a decorous Casa Real, which is why in [...]![]()
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The objective of this work is to address how an Andean Ethnohistory was constituted and how it crossed relations between countries, regions, disciplines and research topics. I approach the conformation of this field analyzing collective research[...]![]()
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Amaya, José Antonio ; Rendón Acosta, Julián Leonardo | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2016-12-23Francisco Antonio Zea (1766-1822) wrote in 1791 with the pseudonymous of Hebephilo. Here we present a Zea’s fragment about the Flora of Bogotá (Flora de Bogotá) by José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808). The description being dated 1798. The treatment[...]![]()
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The creation of the viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 had two immediate consequences for the region of Quito: the integration of its district in the new jurisdiction and the suppression of Royal Audiencia (Appeals Court). These two measures aff[...]![]()
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This article studies the establishment of the encomienda system among the Paez population in the government of Popayán. Compared to other processes to introduce this form of control over the indigenous population in the American continent, the c[...]![]()
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This paper explores the emergence of the phrase” public opinion “in New Granada during the period of the imperial political crisis between 1809 and 1810 and argues that it soon acquires the quality of basic socio-political concept, it is, corres[...]![]()
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Nacach, Gabriela ; Navarro Floria, Pedro | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2004-12-27Colonel Lucio V. Mansilla, military chief of the border of Río Cuarto, in the Argentine Pampa, published in 1870 the narration of his diplomatic mission Una excursión a los indios ranqueles. Being one of the most interesting works of the Argenti[...]![]()
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Muñoz Rodríguez, Edwin Alexander ; Torres Moreno, James Vladimir | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2014-02-11This paper examines the role of the Viceroyalty of the capital in the interregional exchange system which it was part during the late eighteenth century; after establishing the hypotheses, we make an empirical and quantitative performation of so[...]![]()
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This article examines the most representative texts on Hispanic American colonial music published between 1876 and 1976. Since the end of the 19th century, the topic has generated interest in musicians with little training in the human sciences [...]![]()
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Studies about the foundation of convents allow an exceptional understanding of the conflicts, tensions and disputes inside any society. In this article the establishment of a nunnery in Santafé (1606) reveals the latent conflict between the desc[...]![]()
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The Jesuit province of Paraquaria included missions established within both sedentary and non-sedentary indigenous groups. This study examines the Guenoa Minuanos and their interactions with the Jesuit mission San Francisco de Borja. The Guenoa [...]![]()
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In 1787, the administrator of the hacienda El Puente, located in Xochitepec, by mandate of the territory’s priest, imprisoned José Rojas in the ecclesiastical court. Allegedly, he was the author of “a paper which contains different heretical bla[...]![]()
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This article examines the inquisitorial trial, 1626-1639, against Francisco Maldonado de Silva accused by the Tribunal de la Inquisición de Lima of being a Jewish heretic, from the perspective of what Homi Bhabha calls “an analysis of ambivalenc[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the ecclesiastical, political and social context in which the meetings of the Mexican Council of 1771 on the division of the parishes are unwrapped. Although, secularization of doctrines began in 1749 allowed the bishops a [...]![]()
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The hacienda San Telmo of Queyilque, located in the dioceses of Concepcion, Chile, was a typical 18th century colonial hacienda. However, the unexpected death of its owner and the prolonged court case the ensued over the distribution of his belo[...]![]()
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The article presents a discussion about the cycles of colonial economy, by taking into account the relations between mining and rural economy in the Province of Girón (17th and 18th centuries). Three main elements are studied: first, the relatio[...]![]()
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods of the colonial militias system by analyzing the experience of the city of Buenos Aires and its campaign. This will be achieved through the consideration of the militias system’s trajectory bet[...]![]()
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This article is intended to recover the evangelical and educational work of Friar Pedro de Gante in sixteenth-century New Spain. Less well known than other missionary figures, Gante was the first to take as serious commitment with the education [...]![]()
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the figures of overseas trade of hides produced in the Rio de la Plata region during the last decades of the eighteenth century, in order to establish as produced the growth process and the causes of it. El ob[...]![]()
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This article intends to analyze three discourses that advocated for slavery abolition in Spanish America: the first one was written in the late seventeenth century, and the last two in the early nineteenth century. By means of an analytical read[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the textual content of the Cuadro de historia civil, natural y geográfica del reino del Perú año de 1799. Previously, it contextualizes the path of its author, José Ignacio de Lecuanda, in the context of the Enlightenment t[...]![]()
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Taking like example the neogranadine preacher’s Antonio Ossorio de las Peñas sermons, we showed the real intentions of the predicable discourses. They offer the possibility to know the programmatic lines of the transmission of moral values and C[...]![]()
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Historical scholarship, primary sources, and the day’s doctrine all suggest that prisoners during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries experienced wretched conditions. Curiously, in spite of the grueling circumstances they faced, incarcerated[...]![]()
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This article will attempt to offer a summary vision of the principle contributions by recent Argentinean historiography in reference to the sphere of public policy and some of the connected themes, such as the development of citizenship, old and[...]![]()
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Salles, Estela Cristina ; Noejovich, Héctor Omar | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2013-09-25This article deals with early Peru’s Viceroyalty taxation describing, at first, the historical context; afterwards, it presents a document from Archivo General de Indias that refers to Chucuito’s repartimiento real and states some conclusions fo[...]![]()
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González Torres, Annia ; Reyes Rodríguez, Adolfo Yunuen | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2019-01-02In the Sixteenth Century there was an emphasis in the missional work. In spite of it, the spiritual praxis among the naturals kept involving multiple characteristics of the Prehispanic religious practices, and reworking simbolisms of the Catholi[...]![]()
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This article gathers the key contributions of visual studies in the study of cartography, and its relations with critical cartography and colonial studies. Coming from a critique of the harlean method, the possibilities of a hybrid methodology i[...]![]()
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The article describes the production, distribution and sale of powdered tobacco in the Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada. With qualitative and quantitative documentation of the Archivo General de la Nación (Colombia) it is detailed: a) the tobacco in[...]![]()
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del Cairo, Carlos ; Rozo Pabón, Esteban | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2006-12-07This article develops a hermeneutical approach to the book El Orinoco ilustrado written by the Jesuit José Gumilla and published for the first time in 1741. The authors explore the main issues that underlie the colonial discourse in the text thr[...]![]()
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The symbols through which national sentiment is founded tend to be unquestioned. It is forgotten that they are products of a historical process of definition that includes various interpretations and debates. The Royal Banner attributed to Franc[...]![]()
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The border areas are a privileged place for socio-historical and anthropological analysis, since they allow access to the multiplicity of links, tensions and conflicts characteristic of those societies that inhabit them. An example of this is se[...]![]()
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In the following paper I will analyze some of the images not studied enough from the conventual iconographic program of Actopan and Ixmiquilpan in the context of the border, evangelization and war. I will discuss the representation of the discou[...]![]()
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Bonilla, Heraclio ; Forero Polo, Marco Manuel | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2017-08-09The exploitation of silver in Mariquita through the “mita” drove the movement of native labors indigenous from Tunja and Bogota to the mining centers. Because of the extend distances and the geographical problems in the region, encomenderos and [...]![]()
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This article studies ideas and practices surrounding inequality and discrimination in the Andes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Through the analysis of legal disputes over the right to occupy the office of cacique and of requests[...]![]()
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Nicoletti, María Andrea ; Malvestitti, Marisa | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2008-09-05The process of catholic evangelization has been developed in a complex situation of conquest, in which real and symbolic violence held the purpose of controlling, disciplining and introducing a new culture, through the doctrine and the faith. An[...]![]()
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This article will analyze three fundamental changes which took place in the study of the Colombian borders from 1970 to 2003. Among the themes of study are the transformation of the notion of ‘border’ as a historical construction; the increase i[...]![]()
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The research focuses on describing and analyzing the changes in the riverbeds of the Torondoy, Castro or San Pedro and Mojaján or Culebra rivers, in the south of Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), their periodic floods and the disaster caused by the se[...]![]()
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The historiography of colonial Latín America has emphasized the central and decisive role of the Catholic Church in the conquest, colonization and cultural transformation of the inhabitants of the New World. This paper is an initial step toward [...]![]()
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In 1709, the locality of Tumaco, situated in the north-eastern part of the Audiencia of Quito, was the scene of a riot in which the principal residents of the locality confronted several judges sent by the authorities of Quito. This riot refers [...]![]()
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During the Audience of Quito in the XVIII century, the power of the chief was weaken, this generated a restructuring of the chiefdoms and in this process the cacicas were decisive. The documentation shows them disputing and winning in the courts[...]![]()
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The aim of this article is to analyze the obligation of `obedience´ between husbands and wives in the Virreinato del Río de la Plata (1776-1810). The main sources are the lawsuits between spouses on file at the Archivo General de la Nación and t[...]![]()
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The present study of the Codice de la Cruz-Badiano recontextualizes this document as a place of encounter between different writing systems and knowledge. The analysis of the relation between the pictographic-glyphic and alphabetical traditions [...]![]()
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The objective of this investigation is to reflect on the peace agreed between some governors of Tucumán and several autonomous caciques of the interior of the Chaco —tobas, mocovi and vilelas— at the end of the 18th century. It focuse on the his[...]![]()
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This article analyzes the way the image of free color tribute payers was built in Nueva España during the last decades of the eighteenth century. In order to do that, it is necessary to emphasize the quantities that they paid, as well as the pro[...]![]()
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This paper analyzes the regulations issued by the local government of Buenos Aires concerning foreigners between 1740 and 1760, studying the way in which the concept of “foreigner” was successively re-signified locally due to the process of urba[...]![]()
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This article examines the possibilities and limitations of coloured elites in Santiago de Guatemala between the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. By studying the case of Juan de Fuentes (1662-1722), a mulatto captain[...]![]()
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This article discusses the importance of Cassava Flour in the process of colonization of the state of Maranhão and Grão-Pará. Typical food of the native people of the region, flour became part of the European menu, representing one of the most s[...]![]()
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This text analyzes the construction of a particular discursive practice, the Utopian discourse in Cautiverio feliz, a colonial text from Chile (1673) written by the criollo Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán through its reading in a “Utopian r[...]![]()
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The expedition of Balmis set sail from La Coruña (Spain) in 1804 with the mission of taking the vaccine against smallpox to the inhabitants of Hispanic America. Its goal was to vaccinate as many children as possible, and, specially, to prepare t[...]![]()
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Peru showed its most self-governing face—as much as the colonial system allowed— during the interregnum caused by the dead of Philippe IV and the childhood of prince Charles, later Charles II, the viceroy of Peru at that time, Count Santisteban,[...]![]()
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This text analyzes the role of the Instituto Geográfico Argentino (IGA), founded in 1879, in the production, circulation, re-signification, mythification and abandonment of territorial images related to the Chaco, a region considered to be a des[...]![]()
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During the colonial regimen, the prison was understood as a control space used to hold back the people that altered the social order. Santafé, as the capital of the viceroyalty of Nuevo Reino de Granada, have had three jails (Royal prison, El Di[...]![]()
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In the historiography of the Conquest of Nueva España it is necessary to analyze the imaginary that Indians built of themselves as conquering warriors. Generally the word conqueror evokes the Spanish warriors, excluding Indians in this category.[...]![]()
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In this article, the author deals with an unfamiliar topic in the study of the military history of colonial Hispanic America: the watchtowers of the coast. Due to their small size and to the fact that they were constructed with perishable materi[...]![]()
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This text analyses the influence that the diaries and maps elaborated by William Dampier along New Spain’s Pacific Coast had on subsequent expeditions from the late XVII century onwards. His experiences navigating the coast on three voyages betw[...]![]()
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The article is about definitions of margins and marginality in Chile during the 18th century and the ways in which the imaginary of evil was related to that definition. From the History of mentalities, this problem is worked through sorcery caus[...]![]()
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Writing about America was deployed in various scenarios: This article sets out to understand the nature of the interpretations that fray Bernardino de Sahagún built on indigenous societies in the sixteenth century. Working on the Indian past was[...]![]()
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Albornoz, María Eugenia ; Argouse, Aude | Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia | 2017-08-30Public writings build social links, as it occurred in San Felipe de Aconcagua, between the village’s foundation (1740) and the classifi cation of the notarial archives by a notary in 1836. More than recording important events for the history of [...]![]()
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This article revisits the part played by Yanacona indians in Sebastián de Belalcázar’s 1535 invasion of present-day southern Colombia and examines their role in the colonization of Nueva Granada during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Es[...]