Abstract

POLO ACUNA, José Trinidad  and  CARMONA NOBLES, Diana. The mestizaje in a border of the Caribbean: the case of the town of Boronatain La Guajira, 1696-1776. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.1, pp.130-155. ISSN 2011-7574.

Abstract The history of mestizaje reflects more than the biological aspects associated with the mixture of races that generates a human prototype, and is also in the various historical dynamics that enable companies interact at different levels and build, from these relations, complex processes identity. In that sense, this article analyzes the process of miscegenation boronate in the village, located in southern Guajira peninsula during the period 1696-1776, where native cultural elements played a central role in relations that occurred between Creole and Aboriginal societies. We analyze and interpret a variety of sources from the period consisting of population censuses and reports of military and missionaries who served in the Guajira.

Keywords : Mestizaje; Census; Boronata; indiens; Guajira.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )