Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: towards a typology of migration in colonial Spanish America
- 2 Indian migration and community formation: an analysis of congregación in colonial Guatemala
- 3 Migration in colonial Peru: an overview
- 4 Migration processes in Upper Peru in the seventeenth century
- 5 “ … residente en esa ciudad… ”: urban migrants in colonial Cuzco
- 6 Frontier workers and social change: Pilaya y Paspaya (Bolivia) in the early eighteenth century
- 7 Student migration to colonial urban centers: Guadalajara and Lima
- 8 Migration, mobility, and the mining towns of colonial northern Mexico
- 9 Migration patterns of the novices of the Order of San Francisco in Mexico City, 1649–1749
- 10 Migration to major metropoles in colonial Mexico
- 11 Marriage, migration, and settling down: Parral (Nueva Vizcaya), 1770–1788
- 12 Informal settlement and fugitive migration amongst the Indians of late-colonial Chiapas, Mexico
- 13 Migration and settlement in Costa Rica, 1700–1850
- 14 Seventeenth-century Indian migration in the Venezuelan Andes
- 15 Indian migrations in the Audiencia of Quito: Crown manipulation and local co-optation
- Notes
- Index
2 - Indian migration and community formation: an analysis of congregación in colonial Guatemala
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: towards a typology of migration in colonial Spanish America
- 2 Indian migration and community formation: an analysis of congregación in colonial Guatemala
- 3 Migration in colonial Peru: an overview
- 4 Migration processes in Upper Peru in the seventeenth century
- 5 “ … residente en esa ciudad… ”: urban migrants in colonial Cuzco
- 6 Frontier workers and social change: Pilaya y Paspaya (Bolivia) in the early eighteenth century
- 7 Student migration to colonial urban centers: Guadalajara and Lima
- 8 Migration, mobility, and the mining towns of colonial northern Mexico
- 9 Migration patterns of the novices of the Order of San Francisco in Mexico City, 1649–1749
- 10 Migration to major metropoles in colonial Mexico
- 11 Marriage, migration, and settling down: Parral (Nueva Vizcaya), 1770–1788
- 12 Informal settlement and fugitive migration amongst the Indians of late-colonial Chiapas, Mexico
- 13 Migration and settlement in Costa Rica, 1700–1850
- 14 Seventeenth-century Indian migration in the Venezuelan Andes
- 15 Indian migrations in the Audiencia of Quito: Crown manipulation and local co-optation
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Who fails to settle fails to conquer properly.
Francisco López de Gómera (c. 1552)Compared with Mexico and Peru, the colonial experience in Central America, period by period, place by place, remains elusively beyond our knowledge. General works such as those by Murdo MacLeod and William Sherman serve effectively as important frames of reference, but neither scholar would claim his contribution to be anything more than a foundation upon which further research must be built. MacLeod in particular recognizes this, emphasizing that “research on colonial Guatemala has hardly begun.” Declaring the field to be “almost limitless,” he identifies unequivocally the priorities of future research: “One should begin by establishing the geographical context and by putting people into it.” Our intent in this chapter, and the larger work it precedes, could not be worded more succinctly.
The geographical context we wish, if not to establish, at least to explore, is the area of Spanish dominion known in the mid-sixteenth century as the “términos y jurisdicción” of Santiago de Guatemala. Today, such a territorial unit would embrace the Republic of Guatemala, excluding the northern department of El Péten, with some overspill east into El Salvador and west into Chiapas (Figure 2.1). Not the environs of the colonial capital itself but how place arrangements within its jurisdiction came into existence form the focus of inquiry. People may be put into this geographical context a number of ways. The way we choose to project them, Spaniards as well as Indians, is by looking at how each adapted to the other during the complex process of population movement and community formation referred to as congregación.
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