Indian robberies, games and drunkenness. Indigenous society and early Spanish representations in central Chile, 1540-1560
This article studies the representations that Spanish colonizers of Chile, specifically Cabildo de Santiago members and encomenderos , built on indigenous from the central region of the kingdom during the first twenty years of European settlement. Such representations, re...
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Sección Etnohistoria, Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas. FFyL, UBA
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/MA/article/view/3904 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=MA&d=3904_oai |
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| Sumario: | This article studies the representations that Spanish colonizers of Chile, specifically Cabildo de Santiago members and encomenderos , built on indigenous from the central region of the kingdom during the first twenty years of European settlement. Such representations, regarding indigenous peoples lack of willingness to accept Christianity opting to persist in their ancient rites, the alleged Indian poverty and incapability to produce surplus and their inherent violence, translated in the carrying of cold weapons, fled from their reductions and theft of mineral wealth, did not remain only in the generation of negative imagery; in fact they led both the Cabildo and the governors to make decisions that directly influenced the creation of the Chilean colonial society, crossed by Castilian claims of building a structured, Christian social order. |
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