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