Bloque Calima de las AUC

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

CONTENIDO: Reencuentro en El Mercado de Lorica - En Riohacha - En Valledupar - En Santa Marta - En Barranquilla - En Cartagena - En Sincelejo - En Montería.

Las herencias y aptitudes tradicionales - Las asociaciones iniciales y la participación en el poder - La encomienda y el poder político - Tierra, demografía, prestigio - Guerra y paz. Las asociaciones incompatibles - El desenlace de las tensiones políticas - La hacienda y el nacimiento de los partidos políticos - La confluencia de dos mundos - Estructura asociativa y desarrollo.

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.