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Government and Church Documents for Sacatepéquez (1587-1991)
General details:
Site address: http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/the-guatemala-collection
Product: The Guatemala Collection
Brill sub-id: 46437
Start date: 28 Nov 2017
End date: 28 Dec 2017
Project Advisor: David Carey Jr., Loyola University Maryland
Populated predominantly by indígenas (indigenous peoples) who speak Kaqchikel-Maya, Sacatepéquez Department offers an excellent window into Latin American and Native American history. Crucial to Guatemala’s colonial and national development, indígenas were largely discounted and denigrated. Despite such discrimination and disadvantages, many found ways to survive and thrive. Often converging at the nexus of modernization and tradition, the documents in this collection convey the complicated hybrid history of a nation striving to present itself as progressive and civilized in an Atlantic world that seldom associated those qualities with indigeneity. The Guatemala Collection houses a rich array of government, church, and civil documents that bear testimony to an indigenous population’s struggle and success with the changing social, economic, political, and religious dynamics of the colonial and independent rule.
The Guatemala Collection comprises ten series. Across these ten series, the documents of the collection are organized into fifty-seven distinct classifications that include such themes as economy, agriculture, forced labor, complaints, crime, annual reports, natural disasters, municipal affairs, education, elections, military, public works, religion, public health, lands and estates, development, resignations and solicitations, regulations, festivities, and maps.
Language: Spanish
Citation: The Guatemala Collection, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2017 <http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/the-guatemala-collection>