The past is never dead. It's not even past
Colonial Latin America through Objects examines the material cultures of colonialism in Latin America from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It is a new version of a course first created and taught with tremendous success by my distinguished colleague Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. It was also one of the first courses I taught after joining UT. My […]
This paper explores the changing forms of Indigenous authority in Ubaque, a highland Andean valley of the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), in the sixteenth century. According to Hispanic law, caciques were local nobilities who enjoyed a right to rule their communities keeping to their customs. As such, they were recognized as part of […]