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