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- Title
Priests, Mayors and Indigenous Offices: Indigenous Agency and Adaptive Resistance In the Mariana Islands (1681-1758).
- Authors
Atienza, David
- Abstract
This paper challenges the historiographical conception of a break, of a historical discontinuity in the Mariana Islands, and an annihilation of its native inhabitants by the Spaniards at the end of the Seventeen-Century. The indigenous agency and adaptive resistance was continuously performed asymmetrically but actively in the reducciones, producing organs of power, prestige, and control through military titles and offices that were active until 1791. This adaptive resistance would face two structures of power, the Jesuit pries and the alcaldes or mayors. The history of the relations between them is the history of the villages of Guam and its peoples.
- Subjects
MARIANA Islands; GUAM politics &; government; REDUCTIONS (Indian reservations); INDIGENOUS peoples; JESUITS; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Pacific Asia Inquiry, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
2377-0929
- Publication type
Article