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The Manuscript Map Of The Dagua River. A Rare Look At A Remote Region In The Spanish Colonial Americas, Juliet Wiersema
The Manuscript Map Of The Dagua River. A Rare Look At A Remote Region In The Spanish Colonial Americas, Juliet Wiersema
Artl@s Bulletin
The Manuscript Map of the Dagua River Region (1764) is a hand-drawn map produced in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada. While created as visual testimony for a land dispute, I argue that a careful art historical reading of the Dagua River Map, considered in conjunction with eighteenth-century archival documents, nineteenth-century explorers’ accounts, and surviving historical maps, reveals other narratives about ethnicity, industry, and society in a remote region of a peripheral Spanish viceroyalty. The Dagua River map highlights the incontrovertible place that geography held for those—namely enslaved and freed Africans—who came to control trade and transport in the region, …
Not Diamonds, Frances Mccue
Emerald Freedom: “With Pride In The Face Of The Sun”, Norman E. Whitten Jr.
Emerald Freedom: “With Pride In The Face Of The Sun”, Norman E. Whitten Jr.
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Esmeraldas, Ecuador, became home to free African and Afro-Hispanic people in the mid 1500s. It is the only region in the Americas where self liberation— cimarronaje—of Afro-descendant people preceded slavery. It is also the region that soon gave birth to zambaje, the emergence of an African-Indigenous population. This article sets forth salient dimensions of historical and contemporary blackness before sketching the enduring and transforming cultural dynamics of this rain-forest littoral region of the neotropics by reference to cosmovision, the marimba dance, arrullos, chigualos, alabados, la tumba, and la tropa. Following this sketch I turn to political economy, cultural ecology, and …
Land-Based Pollution And The Chesapeake Bay, John W. Warner, John Warren Kindt
Land-Based Pollution And The Chesapeake Bay, John W. Warner, John Warren Kindt
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Transaction Test For Federal Income Tax Loss Deductions
The Transaction Test For Federal Income Tax Loss Deductions
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Barreiro's Ojeada Sobre Nuevo-Mexico, Lansing B. Bloom
Barreiro's Ojeada Sobre Nuevo-Mexico, Lansing B. Bloom
New Mexico Historical Review
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