Indigenous Slavery's Archive in Seventeenth-Century Chile

Autor:	van Deusen, E Nancy
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History 060101 anthropology 0602 languages and literature Ethnology 0601 history and archaeology 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Indigenous
Zdroj:	Hispanic American Historical Review. 101:1-33
ISSN:	1527-1900 0018-2168
DOI:	10.1215/00182168-8796451
Popis:	This article considers the creation and activation of certification documents codifying the capture-event and moment of enslavement of Reche-Mapuche people during the Araucanian wars with Spanish settlers in seventeenth-century Chile. Certification documents were normalized by the military bureaucracy and activated by slave owners who subjected and maintained Reche-Mapuche men, women, and children in bondage. These documents were foundational because they could reproduce what purportedly happened in other documentary and oral forms and facilitated the circulation of essentialized truths about the enslavement of individuals and about slavery writ large. In their legal petitions for freedom, Reche-Mapuche slaves had to speak against the grain of these legal instrumenta, which expressed a legally enforceable act or action as well as evidence of that action. Certification documents also had an archival afterlife following enactment of the abolition of Indigenous slavery in 1679.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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