Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Cette thèse étudie les trajectoires distinctes d'une jeune génération d'ecclésiastiques érudits criollos au sein de la capitale de la Nouvelle-Espagne et leurs consécrations. A travers une approche d'ordre micro-historique, l'objectif est de s'interroger sur les conditions et les modalités d'existence des élites lettrées dans une vice-royauté américaine de la monarchie composée des Habsbourg. / This thesis studies the distinct trajectories of a young generation of criollos scholars clergymen in the capital of New Spain and their consecrations. Through a micro-historical approach, the goal is to question the terms and conditions of existence of the literate elites in an American viceroy of monarchy composed of the Habsbourg.

The goal of the thesis is to analyze war customs of Tarahumara people of northern Mexico during colonial era. The work focuses on technological aspects of warfare like weaponry, strategy and tactics, as well as social phenomenas like taking captives, using of witchcraft and role of violence in Tarahumara culture. 17th century conflicts are seen as part of the process, which has caused significant changes in tarahumaran perception of war an it's role in society. Analysis of this process is the another goal of this work. Further subject of interest are conflicts with the other native groups in the region and influence of tarahumara armed resistance to changes in attitude of colonial institutions. The work is based on sources of the ecclesiastical origin - reports, letters and chronicles of missionaries, as well as correspondence of viceroyal officials and records of military commanders operating in tarahumara region. Keywords: Tarahumaras, Northern Mexico, Warfare, 17th century, Viceroyalty of New Spain, Presidio Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Esta tese foi organizada e proposta com a finalidade de comparar a obra e a transgressão de Sóror Mariana Alcoforado ou a ela atribuídas a parte da obra e à transgressão de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, uma vez que são duas personagens exemplares do Barroco ibero-americano. Ambas serão aproximadas a partir do conhecimento dos respectivos modelos de escrita, e também através do conhecimento do trabalho artístico criado com base na herança deixada por elas. Estarão em discussão, ainda, a vida que os conventos femininos de Portugal e Nova-Espanha proporcionavam, a profundidade e a insistência com que o século XVII levou a cabo uma política sobre sexualidade e a fortuna crítica de Sóror Mariana e de Sor Juana. Ao remeter o leitor para as Cartas portuguesas, para a Carta atenagórica, para a Respuesta a Sor Filotea, para La carta e para alguns poemas, o próprio exemplo de trabalho artístico e intelectual feminino estará exposto e fundamentado. A remissão permitirá caracterizar e recuperar a dinâmica do percurso feminino e a sua dicção, dentro de um panorama literário masculino. / This thesis was organized and projected with the purpose to compare Soror Mariana Alcoforados compilation and transgression or the collection to her accredited to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruzs compilation and transgression, given that they are both exceptional characters of the Iberia-American baroque. Both will be approached by the understanding of their writing model, and also by the perception of their work of art based on the legacy left by them. Moreover on this text will be discussed the life style that the female convents of Portugal and New-Spain provided to its nuns, the profundity and the persistence that the XVII century carried out its political views on sexuality, and the critique treasure left by Soror Marina and Soror Juana. By conducting the reader to the Cartas portuguesas, to the Carta atenagorica, and to the Respuesta a Sor Filotea, to La carta and some other few poems, the example of the artistic creation and the feminine intellect will be exposed and explicated. This guidance will allow the characterization and the restoration of the dynamic of the feminine trajectory, and its voice within a masculine literature scenario.

Introduit dans la vice-royauté de la Nouvelle-Espagne en 1764, le système de l’intendance s’est progressivement diffusé à l’ensemble des territoires composant cette aire géographique. Mon travail porte sur les intendants de la vice-royauté de la Nouvelle-Espagne de 1764 à 1821 qu’ils aient été nommés en pleine propriété ou à titre provisoire. Nous avons mené une étude prosopographique de ces hommes pour l’ensemble des territoires de la vice-royauté (le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, la capitainerie générale du Guatemala, la Louisiane, les îles de Cuba et de Porto Rico, l’archipel philippin). L’étude des origines géographiques, professionnelles et sociales des intendants nous a permis de déterminer le profil de ces agents envoyés aux Indes de Castille. L’analyse du recrutement a révélé ainsi l’importance du capital relationnel dans l’accès aux charges. Tout un pan de notre travail a été consacré dans un second temps à la notion de « carrière », au parcours professionnel. Faisait-on carrière au sein de l’institution de l’intendance ou cette charge constituait-elle une simple étape dans une carrière au service de l’administration de la monarchie ? Telles sont les deux questions qui ont servi de fil conducteur à cette partie. Nous avons aussi souhaité montrer que la charge d’intendant n’avait pas été seulement réservée aux Péninsulaires contrairement à ce que l’on a longtemps cru. Les Créoles ont bien été présents à la tête de l’institution. Notre dernière partie laisse enfin entrevoir l’intégration de certains de ces hommes à la société coloniale. 1821 n’a pas mis fin à la présence des Espagnols en Amérique. Le processus de créolisation a bien été une réalité historique. / Introduced in the viceroyalty of New Spain in 1764, the intendant system has gradually spread to all the territories of this geographical area. My current doctoral research is about the intendants of the viceroyalty of New Spain, whether they’ve been appointed in full ownership or provisionally. We conducted a prosopographical study of these men for all the territories of the viceroyalty (the kingdom of New Spain, the captaincy of Guatemala, the Louisiana, the islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Philippine archipelago). The study of the geographical, professional and social origins allows us to determinate the profile of these agents sent to the Indies of Castile. The analysis of recruitment revealed so the importance of relational capital in the access of charges. Secondly, a significant part of our work has been dedicated to the concept of career, at the professional life. Was there a career within the institution of intendancy or was this charge, a simple step in a career at the service of the monarchy’s administration? These are the two questions that have served as the connecting thread for this part. We also wanted to show that the office of intendant was not only reserved for the Peninsulars, contrary to what we have long believed. The Creoles were present at the head of the institution. Our last part of my thesis finally reveals the integration of some of these men into the colonial society. 1821 didn’t put an end to the presence of Spaniards in America. The process of creolization has indeed been a historical reality. / Introducido en el virreinato de la Nueva España en 1764, el sistema de la intendencia se extendió gradualmente a todos los territorios de esta área geográfica. El tema de mi investigación doctoral trata de los intendentes del virreinato de la Nueva España durante la segundad mitad del siglo XVIII y a principios del siglo XIX hasta la independencia, ya sean nombrados en plena propiedad o como interinos. Se realizó un estudio prosopográfico de estos hombres para todos los territorios del virreinato (el reino de la Nueva España, la capitanía general de Guatemala, la Luisiana, las islas de Cuba y de Puerto Rico, el archipiélago de Filipinas). El estudio de los orígenes geográficos, profesionales y sociales nos permitió determinar el perfil de estos agentes enviados a las Indias de Castilla. El análisis del reclutamiento ha revelado así la importancia del capital relacional para el acceso a los cargos. En un segundo tiempo, nuestro trabajo se consagró al concepto de “carrera” y a las trayectorias profesionales. ¿Se hacía carrera dentro de la institución de la intendencia o más bien constituía este cargo una etapa de la carrera al servicio de la administración de la monarquía? Estas son las dos preguntas que han servido de hilo conductor para esta parte. También hemos querido mostrar que la intendencia no sólo estaba reservada a los Peninsulares a diferencia de lo que hemos creído durante mucho tiempo. Los Criollos estuvieron bien presentes a la cabeza de la institución. La última parte de mi tesis sugiere por fin la integración de algunos hombres en la sociedad colonial. 1821 no puso fin a la presencia española en América. El proceso de criollización fue efectivamente una realidad histórica.

Drawn from examples principally of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this article analyzes the importance which feminine monasteries enjoyed in the cities of New Spain because they administered religious images which were considered miraculous. The images attracted numerous faithful, which resulted in increased economic benefits for the monasteries, thanks to the alms, and the social prestige of the monasteries. Finally, the article argues that, for the cities which housed these monasteries, the presence of the nuns who administered the images was fundamental for constructing their local identity. / A partir de ejemplos tomados fundamentalmente de los siglos XVII y XVIII, el presente artículo analiza la importancia que tenía para los monasterios femeninos en las ciudades de la Nueva España el administrar imágenes religiosas reputadas como milagrosas. Estas últimas atraían a numerosos fieles, lo que aumentaba tanto el beneficio económico de los monasterios, gracias a las limosnas, como el capital social de los mismos. Finalmente, el artículo sostiene que, para las ciudades, la existencia de dichas imágenes y la presencia de las monjas que las administraban eran fundamentales, pues ambos factores eran centrales en la constitución de la identidad local.

Esta tese foi organizada e proposta com a finalidade de comparar a obra e a transgressão de Sóror Mariana Alcoforado ou a ela atribuídas a parte da obra e à transgressão de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, uma vez que são duas personagens exemplares do Barroco ibero-americano. Ambas serão aproximadas a partir do conhecimento dos respectivos modelos de escrita, e também através do conhecimento do trabalho artístico criado com base na herança deixada por elas. Estarão em discussão, ainda, a vida que os conventos femininos de Portugal e Nova-Espanha proporcionavam, a profundidade e a insistência com que o século XVII levou a cabo uma política sobre sexualidade e a fortuna crítica de Sóror Mariana e de Sor Juana. Ao remeter o leitor para as Cartas portuguesas, para a Carta atenagórica, para a Respuesta a Sor Filotea, para La carta e para alguns poemas, o próprio exemplo de trabalho artístico e intelectual feminino estará exposto e fundamentado. A remissão permitirá caracterizar e recuperar a dinâmica do percurso feminino e a sua dicção, dentro de um panorama literário masculino. / This thesis was organized and projected with the purpose to compare Soror Mariana Alcoforados compilation and transgression or the collection to her accredited to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruzs compilation and transgression, given that they are both exceptional characters of the Iberia-American baroque. Both will be approached by the understanding of their writing model, and also by the perception of their work of art based on the legacy left by them. Moreover on this text will be discussed the life style that the female convents of Portugal and New-Spain provided to its nuns, the profundity and the persistence that the XVII century carried out its political views on sexuality, and the critique treasure left by Soror Marina and Soror Juana. By conducting the reader to the Cartas portuguesas, to the Carta atenagorica, and to the Respuesta a Sor Filotea, to La carta and some other few poems, the example of the artistic creation and the feminine intellect will be exposed and explicated. This guidance will allow the characterization and the restoration of the dynamic of the feminine trajectory, and its voice within a masculine literature scenario.

This study is concerned with the Self/Other dichotomy, originally formulated by scholars of South Asian history in the context of European imperialistic treatments of the peoples whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other dispossessed peoples from both colonial and post-colonial Mexico in order to gain some insights into the vision of the powerless, (the 'Other'), held by the powerful (the colonizers, whether internal or external), especially, but not exclusively, in the context of race. Some public and private works of Mexican art from the 18th , 19th. and the 20th centuries are used to understand the perceptions of the Other in Colonial Mexico City, at the time of Independence, in state-sponsored pre and post-Revolutionary spectacles representing indigenous peoples, cinematic representations of the marginalized and the dispossessed from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and in the representation of the marginalized in the literary and photographic works of Juan Rulfo. I conclude that an ambivalent mixture co-existed in Mexican culture through the centuries, on the one hand, honoring the blending that is expressed in the word 'mestizaje', and on the other, adhering to a thoroughly Eurocentric world view. This ambivalence persisted from the 18th century through Independence and the Revolution and its aftermath, albeit in transformed ' / M. A. / Mexico presents an interesting contrast to the United States with respect to the history of race since colonization. The 16th century Spanish conquerors, and the colonizers who followed them, acknowledged the offspring of their unions with indigenous women, setting a tradition that resulted, by the 20th century, in mixed race peoples becoming the major component of the Mexican population. Despite this, there remained a sense in the culture that Europe and those of European descent were still the ideal towards which Mexico aspired, while from time to time, there were paradoxical displays, honoring the ethnic diversity that was New Spanish/Mexican reality. In light of this ambivalence, I have examined some literary and artistic examples of the perception of the colonizers, internal or external, of those whom they marginalized.

ABSTRACT THE ARCHITECTURE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE JESUIT COLLEGE OF OAXACA (XVI-XIX CENTURIES). By Marina Mellado Corriente, MA. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Art Historical and Curatorial Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015 Major Director: Michael Schreffler, Associate Professor, Department of Art History The educational endeavor that the Jesuits – members of the religious order known as the Society of Jesus – carried out in Mexico in the course of the colonial period, when this territory belonged to the Viceroyalty of New Spain (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries), was exceptional. Even though this endeavor has been extensively studied, not much has been written about the edifices, and their significant artistic contents, that not only facilitated the endeavor, but also allowed it to thrive. With the aim of contributing to fill that gap in the scholarly literature, this study engages in an artistic and architectural examination of one among the dozens of school complexes that the Jesuits built and decorated in New Spanish territory: the College of Oaxaca. This establishment was the primary educational institution in one of the most prosperous cities of the viceroyalty, and it ranked third in importance among the colleges that the Jesuits founded in New Spain, representing a clear example of the process of spiritual, intellectual and material expansion that the Society of Jesus carried out in Spanish America. By locating, transcribing and interpreting primary sources (primarily inventories and commissions for works of art) that have not been noticed before or have remained unpublished, and by analyzing the material remains that have survived to this day, it has been possible to reveal that the former Jesuit complex – which today serves, simultaneously, as an apartment building, an indoor parking, a series of storefronts, and a church served by a community of Jesuits – once featured a significantly rich artistic and architectural program, the result of assimilating, but also of rejecting, local and Jesuit traditions. This program, unfortunately, has been progressively disappearing since the expulsion of the Jesuits from Oaxaca in 1767.

My dissertation is focusing on the cocoa trade in colonial Spanish America. Cocoa is undoubtedly one of the New World products which has dominated Europe. The work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter focuses on pre-Columbus period. It describes the origin of cocoa bean, its spread and its significance to the first cultivators. Considerably big part of this chapter is dedicated to the importancy of cocoa bean for the Aztecs culture.The next chapter focuses on the arrival of Spanish colonists, their first experiences with cocoa bean, the beginning of the cocoa trade and its introduction and spread to Europe. The main points of the third chapter are the main areas of cocoa production and trading in the colonial period. Each part of this chapter focuses not only on the trade in Venezuela, Ecuador and New Spain but also on other related topics. The fourth chapter briefly describes Bourbon reforms and shows their influence on different areas of production in 18th and the beginning of 19th century. All findings are summarized at the final part. Keywords: Cocoa, trade, colonial Spanish America, Colonial administration, Spain, Viceroyalty of New Spain,Viceroyalty of Peru