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This article examines colonial documents to shed light on the presence of non-white carpenters in the carpentry trade during the first two centuries of Spanish colonial rule in Peru.
Francisco Mamani Fuentes
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Silver Production in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1776-1824 [PDF]
H T ISTORIANS WHO HAVE TURNED their attention to economic conditions in late colonial Peru have tended to accept, with varying degrees of emphasis, the opinion of contemporary commentators that the loss of Upper Peru to the new viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata in 1776 and the opening of the port of Buenos Aires to direct trade with Spain in 1778 ...
John Fisher
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The view of the Catholic Church of the Viceroyalty of Peru on indigenous funeral rites [PDF]
the article analyzes the Church's position on the funeral rites that were practiced by the Peruvian Indigenous in the early colonial period. First, the author presents a brief description of the Andean funeral rite, most of the elements of which (the ...
Elena Novoselova
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The Construction of the Vaults in the Cathedrals of the Viceroyalty of Peru
In the Viceroyalty of Peru, political power was strongly connected to religion; so the construction of magnificent cathedrals with their symbolic meaning, to replace the first adobe buildings, became the main opportunity for a cultural and architectural knowledge transfer from Spain to the South America.
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Discovery of Cinchona as Antimalarial, Viceroyalty of Peru, Circa 1630
The empirical discovery of the therapeutic power of Cinchona tree bark in the 17th Century has been one of the most important achievements in the history of medicine in its fight against malaria.
Jesús Rojas-Jaimes +2 more
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The Sale of Fiscal Offices and the Decline of Royal Authority in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1633—1700 [PDF]
T he decision of the Spanish crown in 1633 to begin the systematic sale of high-ranking treasury appointments in the Indies had far-reaching consequences for the administration of royal finance in the Viceroyalty of Peru. The viceregal treasury, centered in Lima, exercised broad powers over financial matters in the realm; and the implementation of all ...
Kenneth J Andrien
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The role of silver in the conversion of the indigenous population in the Viceroyalty of Peru
The following contribution will show the importance of artefacts and of "material culture" in the case of religious communication in the Andes during colonial times.
Andrea Nicklisch
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In Cusco, after its colonization, the Spaniards favor the establishment of religious orders, to evangelize the indigenous people. The city begins to develop in direct relationship with churches and convents, new sacred poles of reference in colonial ...
Claudio Mazzanti
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The expression dos cuchillos was used by the Augustinian regalist bishop Gaspar de Villarroel in his work Govierno eclesiástico pacífico y unión de los dos cuchillos, pontificio y regio (published in two volumes in Madrid in 1656 and 1657).
Yasmina Rocío Ben Yessef Garfia
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La Condamine, estudioso del indígena americano: aproximación a sus fuentes etnográficas
This article analyses three sources of indigenous interest (some not very obvious) used by Charles-Marie de La Condamine as materials to forge a vision of indigenous peoples in the Viceroyalty of Peru, which he presented to his European audiences as a ...
Sandro Patrucco
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