Moving Paperwork: Political Communication and the Making of Archives in the Spanish Empire

This article aims at identifying some of the actors responsible for the transportation of records from America to the Iberian Peninsula in the sixteenth century. We will also show how their intervention had an impact on political communication in the Spanish empire. Our goal is to analyse the format...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Cunill, Caroline
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Perú
Recursos:Universidad Católica San Pablo
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Católica San Pablo
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.ucsp.edu.pe:article/1514
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/1514
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:mensajeros indígenas
procuradores
archivos
comunicación política
Yucatán
Indigenous messengers
lawyers
archives
political communication
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Resumo:This article aims at identifying some of the actors responsible for the transportation of records from America to the Iberian Peninsula in the sixteenth century. We will also show how their intervention had an impact on political communication in the Spanish empire. Our goal is to analyse the formation of archives from the perspective of the agents who were charged with their transportation. We will examine the role that Indigenous messengers, as well as the lawyers who were expected to represent the Spanish King’s vassals from the overseas territories before the Council of the Indies in Spain played in the circulation, use and conservation of the records in the empire. Since it is impossible to be exhaustive, the analysis will be built on a series of examples relative to the province of Yucatán in New Spain.