Details

Subject(s)

• Guatemala—History—Sources [Browse]
• Guatemala—History—1821-1945—Sources [Browse]
• Sacatepéquez (Guatemala : Department)—History—Sources [Browse]
• Cakchikel Indians—Social conditions—History—Sources [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Carey, David, Jr., 1967- [Browse]

Issuing body

• Brill Academic Publishers [Browse]

Summary note

"Concentrates primarily on the national era, particularly 1824 to 1948. The documents of the collection are organized into fifty-seven distinct folder classifications that include such themes as economy, agriculture, forced labor, complaints, crime, natural disasters, municipal affairs, education, elections, military, public works, religion, public health, lands and estates, development, resignations and solicitations, regulations, festivities, and maps. Often converging at the nexus of modernization and tradition, the documents 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. Penned primarily by non-indigenous elites, authorities, and scribes, the documents in this collection explore how complex ethnic, racial, class, and gender relations changed over time. ... The vast majority of the documents--correspondence, annual reports, statistics, letters, litigation--found within The Guatemala Collection are from the Archivo General de Centro América in Guatemala City (General Archive of Central America, AGCA) and the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano Francisco de Paula García Pelaez (formerly known as Archivo Eclesiástico de Guatemala) or Catholic Church archive. ... Colonial documents come from the AGCA and the Archivo General de Indias (General Archive of the Indies) in Seville, Spain. A few of the documents and transcripts come from the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (The Center of Regional Investigations of Mesoamerica or CIRMA) in Antigua. In general, the documents are organized by place, theme, and chronology."--Background page.

Notes

Project advisor: David Carey Jr.

Source of description

Contents viewed on June 6, 2018; title from home page.

Language note

Website interface in English; documents chiefly in Spanish with some in English.

Other title(s)

• The Guatemala collection
• BrillOnline primary sources. Guatemala collection
• Guatemala collection : government and church documents for Sacatepéquez (1587-1991)

ISSN

2588-8838

OCLC

1033694411

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