Etnohistorias de América Latina y el Caribe (Coordinación)

This is a collective work, from an open call, which resulted in the book entitled: Ethnohistorical profiles in Latin America and the Caribbean, which contains articles that present research results, critical, theoretical, methodological reflections and research techniques used. in ethnohistorical studies of the area. The interest of the work was to generate the debate on the articulation of local contexts to the processes of globalization and its historical, political, social and cultural links with Latin America and the Caribbean. This is why, for the most part, the texts transcend geographical and geopolitical barriers, and go beyond nationalisms, regionalisms or the geographical areas commonly traced by the borders of the nation State. The writings allow us to understand the diverse social dynamics and historical and geographical interrelationships of the continent, with the network of global links that affect the construction of forms, borders and particular imaginaries of seeing, knowing and dominating the "other" and the "other".The book is divided into two large sections, one Ethnohistories of Latin America, 16th-20th centuries, and the other History, law, gender and politics in Latin America, 20th and 21st centuries. The first section begins with the article called Los Izalcos: A complex altépetl registered by the Tlaxcalans in 1524, by Hugo Díaz Chávez, Julio César Alvarado Hernández and David Calogero Messana Villafranco. This article contributes to the understanding of the geographical distribution of the Nahua peoples before the European invasion and occupation, as well as their imprint on the current administrative divisions. Through the analysis of chronicles of the 16th century and the theoretical perspectives related to ritual landscapes and symbolic appropriations, from the approach of the sociopolitical unit called "altépetl" together with the baggage generated around it and the conception of territory in pre-Hispanic times. Saúl Fernando Uribe Taborda, presents the ethnohistorical aspects of the indigenous populations of the Colombian eastern plains, 16th century, in which he addresses the indigenous populations of the Colombian eastern plains, their social organization and their settlement patterns in the foothills and plains floodable; It is an ethnohistorical work, which includes the cultural, religious, political and economic characteristics of the named groups. Delving into the 17th century, Sandra Cristina Montoya Muñoz, raises the theme, Integrase to resist: the maladaptation of slaves in Antioquia and Popayán, 17th century, during the colonial period, the enslaved Africans protested using various strategies against the Hispanic system that subdued; These mechanisms of rebellion were called resistance. This article analyzes one of the latter strategies used by Africans and their descendants in the governorates of Antioquia and Popayán during the 17th century. Ronald Soto-Quirós, in his study, tries to explain in a decolonia.