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Taming the Master: Brujeria, Slavery, and the Encomienda in Barbacoas at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century

1998; Duke University Press; Volume: 45; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/483321

1527-5477

Kris Lane,

Historical Studies in Central America

Studies of colonial witchcraft (brujeria) in Spanish South America have generally focused on seventeenth-century extirpation campaigns in the central Andes. The A. offers a comparative case of indigenous magic from the less-studied and more biodiverse Pacific coast of Colombia, a gold mining region conquered and settled by Europeans only after I620. By I700 indigenous Barbacoans combined their knowledge of Spanish encomienda (tributary) law with more traditional forms of resistance, helping to speed reform.