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... of the major settlements in the interior. One significant direction in which the frontier expanded was into the Chocó, the large lowland region on New Granada’s Pacific flank. Here, Spanish penetration was driven by both missionary zeal and, more powerfully, by the search for gold. As a result...

...J. Leon Helguera Historia documental del Chocó . Edited by Ricaurte Enrique Ortega and Briceño Ana Rueda . Bogotá , 1954 . Editorial Kelly. Publicaciones del Departamento de Biblioteca y Archivos Nacionales, 24. Illustrations. Pp. vii, 293 . Copyright 1955 by Duke...

... of profitability and draw some conclusions for certain regions where only one or two basic slave occupations existed. One area of Spanish America where the profitability of slavery can be explored is the Colombian Chocó. In the Chocó the principal occupation of slaves for more than a century was placer gold...

...James J. Parsons The Chocó experience seems to the author to offer some support to the theses of Frank Tannenbaum and Herbert Klein that under Spanish rule ‘the peculiar institution’ could be relatively benign. But the force of the Church, and of Spanish law, while present in the Chocó, do...

... . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In the late 1840s Magdalena, a young woman of African descent, was held overnight in the stocks, “accompanied only by the steady rain, constellations of stars, and animals that roamed the village of Noanamá,” an Indigenous settlement in Chocó, Colombia (p...

... by Duke University Press 1994 What role does race play in Colombian national identity, culture, society, and history? Social anthropologist Peter Wade tackles this complicated question by reviewing the history of the Pacific coast department of Chocó and examining the life experiences of its...

... by Duke University Press 2004 Ni aniquilados ni vencidos is a modest but welcome contribution to the literature on the peoples of the little-studied region of the Chocó province of Citará (Emberá). This was a crucially important gold-producing region within the viceroyalty of New Granada...

...: the indigenous resistance in the mining areas of the Chocó, and the better-known case of the war against the Pijao. Valencia argues that the process of resistance was essentially one of ethnogenesis, in which marginal areas became zones of refuge where new ethnic identities were forged. These zones of insurgency...

... with the Spaniards. Paullu Inca’s descendants were the most important branch of the dynastic line in the colonial period. Sahuaraura also prominently portrays the lineage of Anahuarqui, a woman from Choco and spouse of the ninth Inca ruler. This lineage was affinal to the dynastic line, and choosing it over other...

... 365,058 16,508 6674 2108 7 25,297 30 21 Buenaventura 31,150 1,889 1938 445 1 4,273 58 5 Cartagena 103,783 4,053 4503 5300 2 13,858 57 6 Casanare 18,573 28 2644 263 - 2,935 66 2 Cauca 70,748 5,211 4429 283 7 9,930 59 4 Chocó 43,649 722 489 255...

... of the gold dust's impurities as well as the risk of adulteration. 41 In addition, unlike the ores prevalent in the Chocó mining belts, the gold that flowed into Mompox did not have significant traces of platinum that required quicksilver and that thus affected the estimation of quality. 42 Yet...

... and research interests are in pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American history. Her current research is on frontier colonization in Spanish America, and she is presently writing a book on the colonization of the Chocó between the early seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries. guillaume boccara...

... is a joint account of this adventure. Short visits (a few days to several weeks in 1960-1961) were made to the Noanama (Southern Chocó), (Eastern) Tukano, Kogi (Cagaba), Bintukua (Buntigwa), Goajiro, and Motilones (Casacará and Maraca). The anthropological data they present on these groups...

... grassland regions of Venezuela and Argentina. As a consistently interesting and lucid account of the Colombian Llanos in a formative period, this book makes a valuable contribution to Colombia’s historiography and complements the regional studies of Ann Twinam on Antioquia, William Sharp on the Chocó...

... uniformity that would create the basis of a modern country. In the African-origin population of the Chocó, however, Codazzi's advocacy of forced labor to bring progress, along with the opening of roads, reflected the continuation of colonial social and economic prejudice even as the state enfranchised men...

... depictions of dogs with lacerated ears and the disease called chiclero’s ulcer. An article by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff analyzes the clay figurines of Colombia and proposes, on the basis of modern Chocó and Cuna practice, that they were used in shamanistic rituals for the curing of diseases. A cupisnique...

... important to the economy of Tunja than to other areas of New Granada. The majority of the slaves brought into the viceroyalty during the eighteenth century were destined to supplement the declining indigenous population in the mining areas of Popayán and the Choco. Those sold along the way, in Tunja, were...

... Chocó were launched in the 1620s and 1630s. Although Lane does not speculate on Vargas Machuca’s appointment, it might have reflected a late acknowledgment on the part of the crown that his experience ideally suited him to the task of incorporating a region that had defeated his predecessors. Though...

... to analyze side by side the experiences of maroons and Spaniards in both sixteenth-century Panama and Hispaniola and extracts some lessons from the different experiences of these groups in each enclave. Juliet Wiersema brings chapter 7 to the Chocó region in the second half of the eighteenth century...

... (and also Afro-Colombians) and to have been at least as important as the goal of genetic, or phenotypical, homogenization. Amerindians in Colombia historically did not correspond to a single category. Some—like those in the Chocó, or along the middle reaches of the Magdalena River, or in the Caquetá...