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Women, witchcraft and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jacqueline Holler
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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African Maroons in sixteenth-century Panama: a history in documents Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Silvia Espelt-Bombín
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Alluvium and empire: the archaeology of colonial resettlement and Indigenous persistence on Peru’s north coast Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Murderous and negligent nurses: the hospital orders and crisis of care in eighteenth-century Mexico Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Christina Ramos
In 1739, the viceroy and archbishop of New Spain accused an enfermero (male nurse) of strangling a patient on his deathbed at a hospital in Mexico City. The crime was not an isolated incident, but ...
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La Florida del Inca (edición 1605) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Christian Fernández
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Islands in the lake: environment and ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Sarah T. Hines
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Foreword Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Dana Leibsohn
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Desde los principios de aquella misión, y tiempo inmemorial: the indios de la compañía as an alternative path towards Indigenous community formation in Chiloé, 1626–1767 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Javier Etchegaray
This article follows the historical trajectory of the indios de la compañía, a group of Indigenous auxiliaries who performed labor for the Jesuit Order in Chiloé between 1626 and 1767, as a way of ...
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Christian allegory on the northern frontier of New Spain: González de Eslava’s Coloquio quinto Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Stephanie Schmidt
Fernán González de Eslava’s fifth Coloquio espiritual y sacramental is a Christian allegorical drama from New Spain of the 1570s. It concerns Spanish attempts to ‘pacify’ the Gran Chichimeca, a con...
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Customs apart: rethinking inheritance and competing land claims among Native commoner women in colonial Andean villages Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 José Carlos de la Puente Luna
In this essay, I interrogate a handful of rare village records to probe more deeply the participation of rural Native women in conflicts over inheritance in the central Andes during the seventeenth...
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La compañía Barrio y Sordo: negocios y política en el nuevo reino de Granada y Venezuela, 1796–1820 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Edward P. Pompeian
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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‘They have always worn Spanish clothes’: Indigenous elites and sumptuary legislation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century New Spain Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Haley Schroer
Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Indigenous communities in colonial Mexico experienced discriminatory sumptuary laws. Following colonization, Indigenous elites sought to assert t...
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Poder compartido. Repúblicas urbanas, monarquía y conversación en Castilla del Oro, 1508–1573 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023)
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Foreword: Cracking things open Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Dana Leibsohn
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023)
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Una heroica dama? The Discurso en loor de la poesía (1608) in context and the case for Diego Mexía as ‘Clarinda’ Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Maya Feile Tomes
This article re-visits the matter of the much debated identity of the author of the Discurso en loor de la poesía (1608). Inspired by the anonymous writer’s introduction as an heroica dama and seño...
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How to read a map: global and local circulations on Pedro Murillo Velarde’s Map of the Philippines (1734) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Mark Dizon
The standard teleological reading of Pedro Murillo Velarde’s map of the Philippines (1734) as the origin of scientific, national maps of the Philippines fails to situate the map in its proper histo...
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Threefold manuscripts: the nine texts of the Florentine Codex Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Rebecca Dufendach
To understand the manuscript creation process practiced by Indigenous intellectuals in the Americas this essay examines the work of the Nahua scholars who, along with Bernardino de Sahagún, created...
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Agencia indígena, racismo, y libertad. Las juntas de las comunidades del Cuzco durante el debate por la perpetuidad de las encomiendas Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Gonzalo Lamana
El choque entre los intentos españoles de enforzar su supuesta superioridad sobre los pueblos indígenas y los intentos de estos últimos de trazar sus propios caminos fue recurrente en el período co...
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Arte de la lengua mexicana Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Paloma Vargas Montes
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023)
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Ofensiva a los oídos piadosos: obscenidad y censura en la poesía española y novohispana del siglo XVIII Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Martin Nesvig
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023)
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Cultural convergence in New Mexico: interactions in art, history & archaeology, honoring William Wroth Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Matthew Liebmann
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023)
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Painted cloth: colonial art and the diversity of fashion at the Blanton Museum of Art Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Katherine Moore McAllen
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 4, 2023)
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Debating friendship in seventeenth-century Lima, 1678–1681 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Shai Zamir
Given its performative functions and polysemic nature, friendship was constantly debated within the multiple political and legal sites of the Spanish Empire. This article focuses on the case of the...
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Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería: el impacto de la migración laboral y mercantil de la región del Mar del Norte en Nueva España/German conquistadors in Venezuela: the Welsers’ colony, racialized capitalism, and cultural memory Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Wim Klooster
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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The Ibero-American Baroque Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Monika Kaup
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Antonio de la Calancha, Mercurio y la astrología: la nueva nobleza americana Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Ignacio Uribe Martínez
El artículo intenta esclarecer la importancia que el criollo agustino Antonio de la Calancha (†1654) dio a los influjos del planeta Mercurio en su idea de una nueva nobleza peruana contenida en la ...
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Since time immemorial: Native custom and law in colonial Mexico Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Karen B. Graubart
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Exhibition review Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Xóchitl M. Flores-Marcial
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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Interregnos en el cabildo metropolitano de Manila (1641–1653) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Alexandre Coello de la Rosa
Los cabildos catedralicios de Manila han sido escasamente estudiados a pesar de su papel fundamental en la vida cotidiana, social, política y económica de la capital. La función de estas corporacio...
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The colonial archive and its fictions Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Aaron M. Hyman, Barbara E. Mundy
The archive has played a crucial role in art historical scholarship in helping to flesh out the identities of colonial artists, scribes, and writers. But the vagaries of history, colonialist violen...
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Foreword: ‘Peering forward’ Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Dana Leibsohn
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2023)
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The fleet system and the troubled shipping institutions in the Portuguese Atlantic (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Felipe Souza Melo
Improvements in shipping productivity, resulting from increased maritime safety, are considered essential factors to explain commercial growth in long-distance trade between the seventeenth and nin...
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El trigésimo aniversario de la Colonial Latin American Review: algunas reflexiones Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Ana María Presta
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Sovereign joy: Afro-Mexican kings and queens, 1539–1640 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Foreword Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Dana Leibsohn
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Set in stone: Jesuit martyrdom at land and sea in sixteenth-century Brazil Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Nicole T. Hughes
ABSTRACT Among the many unprecedented challenges that Brazil presented to the Jesuits, perhaps the most surprising was its resistance to making viable martyrs. The two places most likely to provide them a violent death were the sertão (backlands) and the sea. Jesuits in the Portuguese colony wanted adversaries to slay them in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith), a traditional requirement for martyrdom
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La condena de la costumbre o la controversia por las libertades criollas en el discurso eclesiástico de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII en el Río de la Plata Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Fernando Aguerre Core
RESUMEN El conflicto entre la costumbre y la ley surgido en la Europa ilustrada llegó al Nuevo Mundo y se manifestó como una señal de las tensiones internas que sacudían al imperio español en el siglo XVIII. Este trabajo analiza ese enfrentamiento desde el discurso eclesiástico. La denuncia de la costumbre por parte de Manuel A. de la Torre, obispo de Buenos Aires y defensor de la ley y de la Corona
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Representations of Baja California Indians as ethnographic art Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Max Carocci
ABSTRACT The few existing pictures of Indigenous peoples of Baja California before the age of photography offer a precious window into the peninsula’s past inhabitants. The synoptic analysis of the material culture depicted in this imagery, from both religious and secular sources, reveals that the credibility of the pictures is based on highly contingent notions of truth that emerge from contextual
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Imágenes en disputa: rivalidades devotas contra epidemias, sequías y temblores en Santiago de Chile (siglos XVII y XVIII) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Josefina Schenke
RESUMEN La ciudad de Santiago de Chile sufrió numerosas catástrofes desde su fundación, en 1541. Situada en uno de los lugares más sísmicos del mundo, experimentó terremotos frecuentes, pestes y sequías. En este contexto, los santos y las advocaciones marianas y cristológicas fueron vitales para sostener la moral de la ciudad. Mediante procesiones y rogativas, las imágenes se disputaban un lugar para
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Unfixing timelines: connecting colonial pasts and contemporary constructs Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Kathleen Ann Myers
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Colonial Latin Asia? The case for incorporating the Philippines and the Spanish Pacific into colonial Latin American studies Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Kristie Patricia Flannery
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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A trope of colonial obliteration?: a critical note on ‘Colonial Latin America’ and related conversations Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Colonial Latin American history and global history: proposals on the uses of historical knowledge Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Expanding the colonial archive Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Miguel A. Valerio
ABSTRACT Reflecting on the insights the churches Black brotherhoods built in colonial Brazil have to offer about the patrons' lives and subjectivities, this brief provocation invites to think the colonial archive beyond the static document.
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Other pasts are possible: reflections on the colonial archive Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Miruna Achim
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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New World objects of knowledge: a cabinet of curiosities Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Stefanie Gänger
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Descendants of Aztec pictography: the cultural enyclopedias of sixteenth-century Mexico Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Kevin Terraciano
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Life and society in the early Spanish Caribbean. The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Leer el libro desde sus paratextos: censura, crítica y legitimación en la literatura novohispana (siglos XVI–XVIII) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 María Isabel Terán Elizondo
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata de Martín del Barco Centenera Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Loreley El Jaber
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Los saberes jesuitas en la primera globalización (siglos XVI–XVIII) Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Materiality: making Spanish America Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Alena Robin
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Pandemic in Potosí: fear, loathing, and public piety in a colonial mining metropolis Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Noble David Cook
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 2, 2023)
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Of shipwrecks, fraudsters, and divers: Cartagena de Indias and the transformation of Spanish Caribbean labor and bullion flows, c. 1650–1660 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Leonardo Moreno-Álvarez
ABSTRACT Using the wreck of the galleon Nuestra Señora de Las Maravillas (1656) as a point of departure, this article analyzes the role of Cartagena de Indias as a logistical center for fraudulent silver salvaging and transportation in the Spanish Caribbean during the middle of the seventeenth century. After 1640, Cartagena's insertion into Atlantic maritime networks suffered from the collapse of Portuguese-led
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The seventeenth-century Spanish Caribbean as global crossroads: transimperial and transregional approaches Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 David Wheat, Ida Altman
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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Informal entrepôts: witness testimony about slave ship arribadas to Santo Domingo and San Juan in the 1620s Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Marc Eagle
ABSTRACT In 1627 and 1628, Francisco de Prada carried out a royal commission to investigate illicit arrivals of slaving voyages to Santo Domingo and San Juan over the previous five years. The witness testimony he gathered during the course of his investigation reveals that—even though Cartagena and Veracruz had become the primary official destinations for enslaved Africans transported to Spanish America—these
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Smugglers, pirates, diplomacy, and the Spanish Caribbean in the late seventeenth century Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Juan José Ponce Vázquez
ABSTRACT In November 1682 the Dutch pirate Nicholas Van Hoorn entered the port of Santo Domingo. He left behind a path of robberies in Spain and attacks on ships of every nationality in West Africa for which English and Dutch authorities sought to prosecute him. The events that transpired during Van Hoorn's visit to Hispaniola reveal that European diplomatic alliances meant little in places where local
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Portuguese Jews and Dutch Spaniards: cultural fluidity and economic pragmatism in the early modern Caribbean Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Oren Okhovat
ABSTRACT Traditional studies of the seventeenth-century Atlantic world often describe it in terms of discreet imperial territories governed by distinct imperial systems. This study joins recent scholarship that has observed how the Atlantic and, more specifically, the Caribbean remained an entangled space rooted in the regional trade of both basic and lucrative commodities. This paper examines how
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Afterword: Looking backwards in time from the eighteenth-century Caribbean and Atlantic world Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Elena Schneider
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2023)
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La creación —fallida— de un mundo fiscal. Charcas (actual Bolivia) 1683–1689 Colonial Latin American Review Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Raquel Gil Montero, Lía Guillermina Oliveto
Published in Colonial Latin American Review (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2022)