{"id":9513,"date":"2021-12-03T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2022-07-27T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:28:29","slug":"where-empires-end-the-spanish-portuguese-frontier-and-indigenous-peoples-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/where-empires-end-the-spanish-portuguese-frontier-and-indigenous-peoples-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"“Where Empires End: The Spanish-Portuguese Frontier and Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ximena Sevilla
Thursday, February 10, 12:30 pm
Hybrid event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Based on Sevilla’s archival work pursued at the John Carter Brown (JCB) library during the Fall of 2021, her talk presents a deeper analysis of some of the seminal works of outsiders who experienced the monta\u00f1a region\u2014located at the eastern slopes of the Andean highlands in northern Peru\u2014 and wrote about their interactions with its local population from the Portuguese\/Brazilian perspective. Sevilla’s presentation answers the main questions that have guided her research, such as what is the monta\u00f1a?<\/em> And, to what extent did the environmental features of this region affect the relationship between the representatives from the Spanish and Portuguese empires as well as the role of indigenous peoples?<\/em> These questions are at the core of the presentation issuing plausible answers in which Sevilla discusses from a macro perspective what contextualizes these two empires\u2019 struggles of power and dominance over the monta\u00f1a and its native population.<\/p>\n

Sevilla’s previous research has focused on Spanish and Quechua-written sources
depicting only the views of Peru\u2019s national elites and merchants who lived in the monta\u00f1a region of northern Peru. \"\"This has excluded the sources discussing the Portuguese imperial attempts to expand their empire to the west, along with the maintenance of trade routes and the exchange of goods coming and going from Par\u00e1, Brazil to the monta\u00f1a during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based in Quito in present-day Ecuador Jesuits followed their missionary fervor and tributaries of the Great Mara\u00f1\u00f3n east and then south, creating a corridor that ran parallel along the monta\u00f1a. However, among other reasons that derailed the Jesuits’ plans, the Portuguese bandeirantes<\/em> represented a constant threat to their Christianization agenda. The presentation of Sevilla’s archival work at the JCB sheds light on the other forces that were part of this region\u2019s dynamic overall.<\/p>\n

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