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Spotlight on the Indians
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Spotlight on the Indians
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what Ysavel Agad would have told Captain Ospina or The first one- hundred years after the Spanish conquest of the Alto Magdalena region (1535-1629)
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Matallana-Peláez
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Susana E.
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Susana Matallana
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Townsend
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Camilla
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Camilla Townsend
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chair
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Kaplan
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Temma Kaplan
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Hewitt
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Nancy
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Nancy Hewitt
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Decena
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Carlos
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Carlos Decena
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Francis
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Michael
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Michael Francis
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2011
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2011-05
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xx
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eng
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Women's and Gender Studies
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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x, 327 p. : ill., maps
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Susana E. Matallana-Peláez
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This study traces the first one-hundred years after the Spanish conquest of the Alto Magdalena Region (1535-1629) in present-day Colombia. In doing so, it focuses primarily on the indigenous actors – male and female, local and non-local – who took part in one way or another in this enterprise. As such it is based on the analysis of twenty-two unpublished archival documents dating from 1540 through 1669. This study argues that Belalcázar‟s Yanacona (Inca) allies played a major role in the conquest and colonization of the Alto Magdalena region, and that Yanacona women were an important part of this expedition. It also argues that Belalcázar and his troops encountered local matrilineal societies (Yalcones, Panches, Coyaimas, Natagaimas, Pixaos) in which women held significant political power, and that a local female (Yalcón) leader by the name of Guatepán may have given rise to the legend of La Gaitana. With regards to the wars of resistance that took place between the second half of the sixteenth century through the beginning of the seventeenth century, it claims that local indigenous groups such as the Coyaimas and Natagaimas who sided with the Spanish were instrumental in defeating the Pixao Indians who were the principal leaders of the revolts. Along this line, it contends that the vicious and “fratricidal” wars between the Indians who sided with the Spanish and those who sided against them were a decisive factor for Spanish victory. In addition it purports to show that local indigenous shamans known as mohanes were in fact politico-religious leaders who were persecuted by Spanish authorities not for religious but for political reasons, and more specifically for their role as leaders of the resistance. Finally, it argues that the wars that ensued after the Spanish incursion destroyed the social networks on which so much of local women‟s power was based, and that as a result, local indigenous women lost much of their traditional power and status.
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Colombia--History
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Colombia--Civilization
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Spain--Colonies--America
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Yanaconas
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Indian women--South America
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000061339
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3HM57S2
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Matallana
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Susana
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2011-04-14 12:30:05
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Susana Matallana
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2011-05-31
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2012-05-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 30th, 2012.
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