Colonial Latin American Review最新文献

{"title":"Unfixing timelines: connecting colonial pasts and contemporary constructs","authors":"K. Myers","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205232","url":null,"abstract":"By connecting the colonial past and its presence today, we can gain deeper insight into both the colonial and contemporary periods—not just in Latin America and Europe but across the global north, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific world. This step away from the traditional geographical and temporal limits of our field takes as its point of departure the notion that colonialist scholars can offer a unique vantage point on modern and contemporary phenomena that so frequently reference Spanish colonialism. Soon after the signing of NAFTA in Mexico, for example, the newly formed Zapatista movement (EZLN) declared war on a 500-year-old legacy of conquest and colonialism, which the authoritarian Partido Institutional Revolucionario had fomented during its 70-year rule. More recently transnational artist Alfonso Cuarón stated that his film ‘Roma’ showcases not just class conflict but also social unrest that emerged from colonial and neo-colonial racial structures. Both of these examples not only cite colonial legacies as thematic remembrances of the past, they connect colonialism, modernity, and coloniality to ongoing—if still ever-changing—structures of race and power. As a scholar and teacher of Colonial Latin America, I have begun to explore ways to understand better these references to colonialism and the colonial past and their role in contemporary society. Recently, I invited four co-authors to investigate ways we might reorient our gaze to see more clearly this relationship. Rather than identify a set of entities under colonial erasure, we sought to track the operations of coloniality itself across a wide range of cultural and material production, across centuries, and across boundaries. Taking the intimate relationship between coloniality and modernity as a point of departure, our volume, Contemporary colonialities in Mexico and beyond, addresses three central questions: How does Mexican colonial history influence the definition of Mexico both from within and outside its borders? What issues rooted in coloniality recur over time and space? And finally, what cultural products can we study to illustrate, in a concrete and tangible way, the relationship between the evolution of colonialism and coloniality through history? We argue that understanding the foundational structures of Spanish colonialism provides insight into the evolution and perpetuation of practices and discourses of racial, ethnic, gender, and social exclusion rooted in Mexico’s history up to the present day. In my chapter for that volume, ‘An archaeology of coloniality,’ I argue that a spatial perspective can provide a useful lens to access the relationship between colonialism,","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42592358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Set in stone: Jesuit martyrdom at land and sea in sixteenth-century Brazil","authors":"N. T. Hughes","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205216","url":null,"abstract":"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. Yet the Jesuits’ rhetorical construction of Indigenous peoples in the sertão, combined with its complex social dynamics, proved incompatible with this requirement. During the first decades of the province of Brazil, the Soldiers of Christ found that while their evangelical work remained on land, the sea’s narrative tropes suited the requirements for martyrdom best. To build their case for Jesuit martyrs in Brazil, José de Anchieta and his Jesuit companions subverted an age-old poetic landscape and constructed a fluid literary cartography.","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48814628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Materiality: making Spanish America","authors":"A. Robin","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45338296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life and society in the early Spanish Caribbean. The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550","authors":"Juan José Ponce Vázquez","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48948355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Representations of Baja California Indians as ethnographic art","authors":"Max Carocci","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205219","url":null,"abstract":"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 relationships between images and texts. The essay maintains that representational differences mirror distinct ways of thinking about the depiction of ethnographic subjects. Although variability in style may depend on artistic ability and skill, diversity in subject and mode of representation are as much the product of multiple intermedial entanglements as they are the result of implicit aims and purposes. This unprecedented comparative exercise, while eliciting questions about what counts as accuracy in distinctive artistic and literary genres, encourages a reflection on the nature and role of images whose lives straddle between art and anthropology.","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45958278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"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","authors":"Fernando Aguerre Core","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205217","url":null,"abstract":"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, deja entrever —por el contrario— la estima que tenían por la costumbre los habitantes del Río de la Plata. El discurso propone que la costumbre, alimentada por el laxismo moral de los jesuitas y expresada en usos diversos, se halla en el origen de las ‘amplitudes de conciencia’ que concebían libertades ilegales, de las que usaba la élite local en contraste con la uniformidad del proyecto borbónico. El análisis del discurso de los obispos americanos en las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII puede arrojar luces nuevas sobre el ambiente propicio al proyecto emancipador.","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43118397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imágenes en disputa: rivalidades devotas contra epidemias, sequías y temblores en Santiago de Chile (siglos XVII y XVIII)","authors":"Josefina Schenke","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205231","url":null,"abstract":"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 prevenir catástrofes, consolar cuando estas asolaban la ciudad, o rogar para que cesaran. El monopolio de las imágenes mercedarias en el control de estos fenómenos dio paso, desde mediados del siglo XVII, a la injerencia de otras órdenes regulares. En este estudio se analizan los sucesivos patronazgos y relatos milagrosos rivales que surgieron en la prevención de catástrofes para la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, tanto en continuidad como en ruptura con las devociones eclesiales universales.","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46201929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Colonial Latin American history and global history: proposals on the uses of historical knowledge","authors":"Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205253","url":null,"abstract":"I would like to thank the members of the Colonial Latin American Review committee for their generous invitation to participate in this conversation. I gather that what is expected of me is an outside view of the future of this field from the perspective of a specialist in the history of the Spanish empire interested in global history (we were also asked to be provocative). The fundamental question, I think, is how studies of colonial Latin America can help our society, and what can make them attractive, not only to us but to other citizens? Today, attention to Ibero-American cultures and their histories is increasing and the number of people who speak Spanish or Portuguese is growing. Interest in native American languages and societies is also on the rise. But the impression in some countries—as in the case of England, and perhaps Italy—is of decline, due to academic markets’ constrictions and institutional priorities. When it comes to the US, the impression is that there are more Spanish speakers, but I wonder to what extent colonial Latin American studies are expanding at the same pace and specialists have a greater presence in the public sphere. Of course, Latin American societies continue to be intrigued by their own past, but there too the feeling is that studies of more recent times are favored. The political uses (and abuses) of colonial history are also evident everywhere. While in the United States monuments to Columbus are torn down, in Seville the word ‘traitor’ appears on a statue of Bolivar, or in Madrid videos and movies represent the first circumnavigation of the world with triumphalist phrases or just aim at substituting a Black by a Golden Legend narrative. Everywhere, history seems the victim of remembrance, one of the backbones of our societies but also a selective and emotional way of seeing the past that can be simplified and manipulated according to spurious interests. Can a global perspective on colonial history help in this situation? Although it has been a debated topic, many specialists today understand that there is no necessary opposition between area studies and global history and that a global analysis of the local or the regional—let us say colonial Latin American societies—is necessary, and vice versa. People also understand that global history is a perspective that does not have as its sole and necessary objective the great debates on globalization, but rather is equally useful for answering questions about certain societies in themselves. On the other hand, perhaps Jeremy Adelman was right when he warned us that global history could be a new ‘Anglo-Spheric’ view of the world (Adelman 2017). Yet one","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42379094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Los saberes jesuitas en la primera globalización (siglos XVI–XVIII)","authors":"Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42054944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New World objects of knowledge: a cabinet of curiosities","authors":"Stefanie Gänger","doi":"10.1080/10609164.2023.2205263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44336,"journal":{"name":"Colonial Latin American Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47803254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}