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- Title
Definir las fronteras de la América meridional en el periodo colonial tardío: cartografía, informantes indígenas y conocimiento geográfico.
- Authors
CLERET DE LANGAVANT, BENITA HERREROS
- Abstract
This study examines how cartography was used and interpreted by the governors of Mato Grosso and Paraguay in their disputes over the frontier limits of the Iberian empires in the regions they governed at the end of the 18th century. This analysis contributes to understanding how frontiers were interpreted and presented in colonial discourses and cartographic production. It also explores the activity of the members of the demarcation commission sent to the region after the signature of the Treaty of San Ildefonso (1777), highlighting the centrality of the contributions of indigenous informants and interpreters both for the construction of geographical knowledge about the border area, that remained, mostly, outside the effective control of both Iberian Crowns and for its materialization in maps in which the indigenous were, however, underrepresented.
- Subjects
PARAGUAY; MATO Grosso (Brazil : State); EIGHTEENTH century; TRANSLATORS; MAPS; GOVERNORS; IMPERIALISM; CARTOGRAPHY
- Publication
Revista de Historía da Sociedade e da Cultura, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1645-2259
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.14195/1645-2259_24-1_2