Chorographic Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Map from southern Charcas
Keywords:
Charcas, Archbishopric of Charcas, Andean mines, sacred mountains
Abstract
This article deals with a little-known 17th century map of the south of Charcas. Found in the National Library of France, this map was the object of study in a short article by the French ethnohistorian Thierry Saignes in 1985. Here, while articulating the information found in the map with historical sources and recent archaeological data, we reveal the general meaning of the document and explore two themes that are prominent in the document and directly related: Mining and indigenous mountain cults, both principal sites of power struggles and survival in the Andes after the arrival of the Spanish. Analysis of the document reveals that it was a detailed and precise ecclesiastical cartography of a portion of the Archbishopric of Charcas, with the city of La Plata and its orbit of influence conforming its principal focus.Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
How to Cite
Cruz, P. (1). Chorographic Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Map from southern Charcas. Estudios Sociales Del NOA, (15), 5-32. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/esnoa/article/view/1964
Issue
Section
Artículos
Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:
- The authors or translators retain the copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International, which allows third parties to use what published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal.
- Authors may enter into other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in ESNOA (eg, include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal.
