(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-05-06) Nogueira, Patricia; Zanolli, Carlos
By February 1781, several towns that secured the entrance to the city of La Paz from the valleys had risen against Spanish power under the command of a common Aymara Indian named Julián Apasa, who later took the name of Tupac Katari. Almost parallel to this movement, during the month of April, with the capture of Tupac Amaru II, Diego Cristóbal Tupac Amaru transferred the rebel camp to Azángaro. From that moment on, Amarus and Kataris began to share the rebel geography. This situation required them to establish negotiations and certain agreements, unavoidable when facing a common enemy. No one could lose sight of the fact that coordinated and joint actions would help hit the Spanish harder, obtaining a faster victory and one less onerous in terms of material resources and human lives. It was from those agreements onwards that Gregoria Apasa, Tupac Katari’s sister, played significant roles, both at the family level as well as at political, military and leadership levels.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-05-07) Ramírez, Susan
Based on examples and personal experiences in reading and analyzing written sources, this note demonstrates the heuristic and methodological issues that the ethnohistorian must keep in mind when carrying out research on the ancient and colonial Andean world. In particular, it highlights the complex unknowns that may arise when reviewing documents, the researcher’s own confirmation biases, and the inescapable need for an interdisciplinary perspective.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-05-06) Cañeque, Alejandro
This article discusses the historical significance of a leaflet printed around 1713 by the Society of Jesus to promote the mission of Mojos, located in the northeast of present-day Bolivia. Although historians generally refer to this document as «the map of the Mojos mission», this study argues that the 1713 pamphlet is much more than a map, and can be understood as the equivalent of a typical Jesuit missionary chronicle. This is of great relevance, since the Society of Jesus always marked the consolidation of its numerous missions in the Americas with the publication of a magnum opus to publicize its evangelical efforts. In the case of Mojos, although a chronicle of the mission would never be published, the pamphlet of 1713 fulfils this function, since it is both structured in the same way as the typical Jesuit missionary chronicle, whose model had been established by José de Acosta at the end of the sixteenth century, and faithfully follows all the discursive principles that shaped the Jesuit chronicles.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2024-05-07) Drinot, Paulo
In this interview, conducted in June 2023, historians Paulo Drinot and Nelson Manrique discuss the latter’s biography, historiographical production, political activism, university teaching and journalistic work. The interview opens a window on the life and work of one of the most important and influential intellectuals in Peru in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century.
