Description
Spanish colonialism in the Americas left a long-lasting legacy of indigenous communal land dispossession. The legal system offered Andeans and their opponents in court the opportunity to prove their claims of land possession/dispossession variously. As probatory evidence in land disputes, landscape mapping appears occasionally in the colonial archives of Peru. I propose this colloquium as a contextualized exercise of reading collectively a 1792 map from Tapay and to play with ideas, suggestions, informed imagination, and multiple possibilities of interpreting the Andean space construction we see in this map.
Speaker
Alcira Dueñas is a Professor of Latin American History at Ohio State University, Newark. Her work treats indigenous peoples as thinkers, legal intermediaries, and actors of colonial culture. Her award winning book Indians and Mestizos in the ‘Lettered City’ Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy and Political Culture in Colonial Peru was published in 2010 by the University Press of Colorado. In 2015 she edited the volume “Indigenous Liminalities: Actors and Translators of Colonial Culture in a Native Key” (The Americas), in addition to many articles published in peer reviewed journals in the US and Latin America. Among other research awards, Alcira has been the recipient of three Fulbright Scholarships (1994, 2013, 2018), a Max-Plank Institute Fellowship (Frankfurt, 2014), a John Carter Brown Library long-term Fellowship (2015-2016) and a year-long sabbatical fellowship at the Ohio State University. Alcira’s second book project (currently in progress) explores indigenous interventions in empire making through their daily production of the Pueblo, first-instance jurisdiction of the 'República de Indios.'
About Colloquium
Colloquium is a weekly series of talks featuring staff, fellows, and scholars who are working with the library’s vast collections. These events bring together experts from various fields to share their research on a wide range of topics, followed by an opportunity for the audience to ask questions and engage in conversation.
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