Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)

The current paper deals with the identification of indigenous authorities in colonial sources, in two borderlands of the Spanish Empire, Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The figure of the chief appears to be omnipresent in colonial documents, in administrati...

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Autor principal: Giudicelli, Christophe
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Sección Etnohistoria, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas. FFyL, UBA 2018
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colonial sources
ethnic authorities
Tucumán
Nueva Vizcaya
fuentes coloniales
autoridades étnicas
Tucuman
Acceso en línea:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/6201
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spelling I28-R258-article-62012022-08-27T16:29:06Z Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries) Dar con el jefe. Las autoridades indígenas y los registros coloniales (Tucumán y Nueva Vizcaya, siglos XVI y XVII) Giudicelli, Christophe colonial sources ethnic authorities Tucumán Nueva Vizcaya fuentes coloniales autoridades étnicas Tucuman Nueva Vizcaya The current paper deals with the identification of indigenous authorities in colonial sources, in two borderlands of the Spanish Empire, Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The figure of the chief appears to be omnipresent in colonial documents, in administrative files as well as in documents referring to war. Its recurrent apparition, though, is almost always problematic and ambiguous. The “caciques”, “curacas”, “principales” and so on show up either as autonomous emanation of the group they represent and as necessary figures of the bureaucratic colonial organisation. They were rebel leaders and also representatives chosen by Hispano-Creole instances to represent a previously submitted contingent. This article poses a few hypotheses in order to distinguish in colonial sources a leader who effectively takes its power from within its society from a cacique appointed by the colonial order, whose position is mainly heteronymous. El presente trabajo trata la identificación de las autoridades indígenas en las fuentes coloniales en dos tierras de frontera de la América española, el Tucumán y la Nueva Vizcaya, entre finales del siglo XVI y principios del XVII. La figura del jefe está omnipresente en los registros coloniales, tanto en los documentos administrativos como en los que tratan de la guerra. Sin embargo, la aparición de esta figura suele ser problemática y ambigua. Los “caciques”, “curacas”, “principales”, etc. aparecen tanto como emanación autónoma del grupo al que representan o como figuras necesarias para la gestión burocrática colonial; como líderes rebeldes o responsables designados por las instancias hispano-criollas para representar un contingente previamente sometido. A partir de estudios de caso, el artículo propone algunas pistas de reflexión para ver en qué medida se puede distinguir en las fuentes la identificación de un jefe emanado de la sociedad indígena del nombramiento heterónomo de un cacique, funcional al orden colonial. Sección Etnohistoria, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas. FFyL, UBA 2018-01-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/6201 10.34096/mace.v26i1.6201 Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria; Vol. 26 Núm. 1 (2018); 17-33 Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria; Vol 26 No 1 (2018); 17-33 1851-3751 0327-5752 spa http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/6201/5442
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topic colonial sources
ethnic authorities
Tucumán
Nueva Vizcaya
fuentes coloniales
autoridades étnicas
Tucuman
Nueva Vizcaya
spellingShingle colonial sources
ethnic authorities
Tucumán
Nueva Vizcaya
fuentes coloniales
autoridades étnicas
Tucuman
Nueva Vizcaya
Giudicelli, Christophe
Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)
topic_facet colonial sources
ethnic authorities
Tucumán
Nueva Vizcaya
fuentes coloniales
autoridades étnicas
Tucuman
Nueva Vizcaya
author Giudicelli, Christophe
author_facet Giudicelli, Christophe
author_sort Giudicelli, Christophe
title Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)
title_short Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)
title_full Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)
title_fullStr Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)
title_full_unstemmed Find the chief. Indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, 16th and 17th Centuries)
title_sort find the chief. indigenous authorities and the colonial documentary corpus (tucumán and nueva vizcaya, 16th and 17th centuries)
description The current paper deals with the identification of indigenous authorities in colonial sources, in two borderlands of the Spanish Empire, Tucumán and Nueva Vizcaya, between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The figure of the chief appears to be omnipresent in colonial documents, in administrative files as well as in documents referring to war. Its recurrent apparition, though, is almost always problematic and ambiguous. The “caciques”, “curacas”, “principales” and so on show up either as autonomous emanation of the group they represent and as necessary figures of the bureaucratic colonial organisation. They were rebel leaders and also representatives chosen by Hispano-Creole instances to represent a previously submitted contingent. This article poses a few hypotheses in order to distinguish in colonial sources a leader who effectively takes its power from within its society from a cacique appointed by the colonial order, whose position is mainly heteronymous.
publisher Sección Etnohistoria, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas. FFyL, UBA
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url http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/6201
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