HistoricaPub Date : 2016-12-14DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201602.003
Owen Jones
{"title":"Chinamitales: defensores y justicias k’ichee’ en las comunidades indígenas del altiplano de Guatemala colonial","authors":"Owen Jones","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201602.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201602.003","url":null,"abstract":"The present article examines the functions of indigenous advocates whose position as ward leaders (chinamitales) in K’ichee’ societies existed in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and continued into the colonial nineteenth century in Guatemala. This was a hereditary legal and administrative position that elites in K’ichee’an society enjoyed as a result and reward of military conquest in the Pre-Columbian era. Chinamitales advocated for the inhabitants of their wards who were both elites and non-elites in land disputes and in criminal matters. They persisted in indigenous communities from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century as officially unrecognized legal advocates who participated in tribunals in indigenous communities at the local level and advocated for their constituents before their indigenous town councils. They also acted in a similar capacity as the indigenous municipal council, making last testaments, nominating candidates for local town council elections and positions in the church laity, collecting tribute, and choosing laborers for the repartimiento. Their advocacy spilled over into colonial judicial proceedings at the regional and high court levels when disagreements arose within indigenous communities over land disenfranchisement and whenever they sensed that the indigenous municipal council was not protecting their interests.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"21 1","pages":"81-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73066540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-12-14DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201602.005
Alcira Dueñas
{"title":"Cabildos de naturales en el ocaso colonial: jurisdicción, posesión y defensa del espacio étnico","authors":"Alcira Dueñas","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201602.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201602.005","url":null,"abstract":"Este ensayo examina ciertos cambios criticos en la jurisdiccion de la «Republica de indios» en el Peru colonial tardio. Busca ademas problematizar el significado del concepto de «posesion» y del derecho de usufructo en el contexto de la propiedad comunal en los pueblos de indios y los cambios producidos en la jurisdiccion indigena en 1777 con la creacion de las subdelegaturas que reemplazaron el juzgado del corregidor. Las Ordenanzas de Intendencia de 1784 y 1803 desplazaron mas certeramente la autoridad jurisdiccional del Cabildo indigena y su capacidad de decision en cuanto al ordenamiento espacial del pueblo. Los procuradores y jueces del Cabildo de Chorrillos, entre otros, avanzaron una sistematica defensa legal de la propiedad comunal y un nuevo sentido de la etnicidad urbana. Al amanecer del siglo XIX, se profundizaba una refinada cultura letrada anclada en el potencial jurisdiccional de la «Republica de indios» con una larga tradicion de escritura y lucha legal. Desafiando la autoridad del juez subdelegado, el Cabildo respondia tacitamente al proyecto borbon de control politico local de los pueblos, intentando rescatar los ultimos vestigios de comunidad que permanecian aun en los pueblos del valle de Lima al final de la experiencia colonial.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"7 1","pages":"135-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82496919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-08-23DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.005
Javier Flores Espinoza
{"title":"Algunas observaciones sobre el Diario histórico de Sebastián Franco de Melo y la rebelión de Huarochirí de 1750","authors":"Javier Flores Espinoza","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.005","url":null,"abstract":"Los testimonios son un género extremadamente raro en la historia peruana. A diferencia de lo que sucede en otros lugares, en nuestro país son sumamente escasos los personajes que nos han dejado sus memorias o cualquier otro tipo de testimonio personal. Y contra lo que podría creerse no se trata de una cuestión temporal, pues esta afirmación vale tanto para la colonia como para la república, y para todos y cada uno de los siglos transcurridos desde el siglo XVI en adelante. Desentrañar las razones de este vacío constituye un desafío que hasta ahora nadie ha osado plantear, y mucho menos enfrentar. Entretanto, lo único cierto es que tanto diarios como memorias brillan por su ausencia entre las fuentes históricas peruanas. Todo esto hace que la aparición de El diario histórico de Sebastián Franco de Melo,1 el libro que ahora comentamos, resulte particularmente bienvenida, y tanto más cuanto que se trata del testimonio que Melo, un portugués que combatió en el ejército español en tiempos de Felipe V, dejó sobre la rebelión de Huarochirí de 1750 y el papel clave que le cupo en su debelamiento, más gracias a su astucia y habilidad como político que a la fuerza.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"18 1","pages":"145-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87674889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-08-23DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.006
Gabriela I. Ramos
{"title":"María Rostworowski (1915-2016)","authors":"Gabriela I. Ramos","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.006","url":null,"abstract":"María Rostworowski ha partido a los cien años de edad dejándonos una obra que es a la vez impresionante y difícil de evaluar. Reflexionar sobre el aporte de una historiadora que desarrolló toda su producción desde un lugar excéntrico obliga también a situar su contribución dentro de un campo que a lo largo de su vida se fue configurando de una manera especial, acaso única. ¿Cómo fue ese campo en el que Rostworowski produjo y diseminó su obra? Lo he llamado excéntrico porque, como ella siempre se apresuraba en señalar, no se sentía un producto de la educación formal. Insistía en describirse como autodidacta. Con un delicado toque de orgullo, afirmaba no tener un solo papel que certificara que asistió a la escuela. No porque jamás hubiera asistido a algún establecimiento educativo, sino porque las extraordinarias circunstancias de su vida redujeron a polvo o cenizas los vestigios de una educación formal. Y aunque no lo dijera, con ello daba a entender que tampoco se sentía parte de la academia. Por supuesto, la academia la leía, y fueron muchos los académicos tanto dentro como fuera del Perú que se relacionaron con ella. Pero Rostworowski no surgió de la academia y solo ejerció una vez la docencia universitaria: en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. «Me llaman doctora de cariño», decía. Con esta frase coloquial, que solo podía decirla","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"30 1","pages":"153-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76889975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-08-23DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.002
I. J. Jiménez
{"title":"Economía y urgencia fiscal: los asientos hacendísticos del Consulado de Lima en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII","authors":"I. J. Jiménez","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.002","url":null,"abstract":"The unpromising state of the colonial Peruvian economy, where prices were rising and productivity was at a standstill, led to a great slowdown in the tributary income of the Monarchy. In the face of this situation, the best solution to increase economic activity and swell the coffers of the Royal Tax Office was to hand over tax collection to Lima’s Consulado de Comercio. From the 1660s through the beginning of the eighteenth century, there was constant negotiation in Peru between the consigner, the Crown, and the consignees, the merchants.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"54 1","pages":"35-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73628040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-08-23DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.001
Martha G. Bell
{"title":"Delimitar y gobernar las aguas de Lima: relaciones urbano-rurales y rivalidades administrativas en Lima colonial","authors":"Martha G. Bell","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.001","url":null,"abstract":"Lima’s city wall was completed in 1687, creating a physical boundary between the urban space and its rural surroundings. Yet well before this date, the division between city and countryside had been established. Water governance was one arena in which this can be observed. Officially, all water in Lima and its rural surroundings fell under the jurisdiction of Lima’s cabildo. However, the viceroy and Real Audiencia were also frequently involved in water governance, sometimes in direct conflict with the cabildo. This article analyzes the debate over the roles of these branches of government during the entire colonial period.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"70 1","pages":"7-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73661183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-08-23DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.004
Horacio Ramos
{"title":"La reforma neocolonial de la plaza de Armas. Modernización urbana y patrimonio arquitectónico en Lima, 1901-1952","authors":"Horacio Ramos","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.004","url":null,"abstract":"This essay illustrates how the debates surrounding the neo-colonial redevelopment of Lima’s Plaza de Armas (1940-1952) altered perceptions of the city’s urban modernization and architectural heritage. Analyzing projects dating back to the turn of the 20th century reveals that the redevelopment was part of a series of urban interventions involving the destruction of architectural heritage and the construction of major avenues and buildings. The promoters of functionalism criticized the redevelopment, causing this type of urban intervention and the neo-colonial style as «anachronistic».","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"35 1","pages":"102-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74184566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2016-08-23DOI: 10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.003
Susy Sánchez
{"title":"Del furioso cañoneo al eco de Bolívar: guerra, ciudad y sonoridad en Lima, 1819-1826","authors":"Susy Sánchez","doi":"10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/HISTORICA.201601.003","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the soundscape, both commemorative and disruptive, experienced in the city of Lima during the War of Independence, focusing on the sounds produced by church bells and cannons. Even though, in Lima, patriots and royalists never fought a pitched battle, the war resoundingly marked the city’s aural environment. Disruptive noise emitted by church bells and cannons during the war greatly exceeded in intensity and duration the commemorative sounds sponsored by the independent government, and even had the power to change it dramatically.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"42 1","pages":"65-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76279154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2003-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120120178
J. Ribberink
{"title":"'Het Amerikaanse belang' [Review of: Frances Gouda, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg (2002) American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia. US foreign policy and Indonesian nationalism, 1920-1949]","authors":"J. Ribberink","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120120178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim120120178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"16 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82881924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoricaPub Date : 2002-01-01DOI: 10.18800/9972424049
Fernando Santos Granero, Frederica Barclay
{"title":"La frontera domesticada: historia económica y social de Loreto, 1850-2000","authors":"Fernando Santos Granero, Frederica Barclay","doi":"10.18800/9972424049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18800/9972424049","url":null,"abstract":"Este libro reconstruye y analiza los cambios ocurridos en la economía política, el paisaje rural y la sociedad civil de Loreto. Este análisis cubre un periodo de 150 años ente 1851, cuando el río Amazonas fue abierto a la navegación internacional, y el término del siglo XX, marcado en este caso por la firma de los acuerdos de paz con Ecuador y la puesta en vigencia en la región de los nuevos parámetros neoliberales.","PeriodicalId":88251,"journal":{"name":"Historica","volume":"6 1","pages":"546"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90451493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}