Abstract

MONROY-MERCHAN, María del Pilar. The Participation of the Indigenous elite of the Guane Province in the Religious Order of Our Lady of the Rosary (1638-1752). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2022, n.42, pp.187-222.  Epub Feb 25, 2022. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n42.93021.

After the process of conquest, the indigenous nobility had to adapt to the new structure of Hispanic dominance and become a mediator between the colonial authorities and the community of origin. This paper reconstructs the incorporation of the indigenous elite of the Guane province into the religious orders. What role did the indigenous authorities play in the process of consolidation of a religious corporation during the seventeenth and part of the eighteenth century in the indigenous town of Moncorá? To account for this process, the Book of the Order and Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary is inductively analyzed and some statistical data are extracted in order to identify the participation of caciques and cacicas (male a female chiefs) in the positions system of the religious corporation. The information provided reveals that the indigenous nobility was integrated collectively in the order during the seventeenth century. However, at the end of the 17th century, it ceded its participation to indigenous people from the common, the indigenous authorities retreating to the periphery where they took devotional practices such as the prayer of the Rosary.

Keywords : elite; religious community; community participation; Catholicism; religious education, church; Amerindian cultures; New Kingdom of Granada; 17^th century; 18^th century.

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