Resumen

PERALTA AGUDELO, JAIME ANDRES. "Paradise of heat" and refuge of "barbarians" Nature and the Cuna of Darien in their "plot" against the Spanish empire. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2024, vol.19, n.45, pp.45-76.  Epub 20-Nov-2024. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.45.2024.3824.

From a meeting point between Environmental History and New Cultural History, the initiatives, mostly unsuccessfully, to incorporate Darién into the colonial system of the 18th century are analyzed, but through a new perspective of inquiry that revolves around the schemes of observation, evaluation, and significance on the natural envi-ronment, as well as the concomitant intervention models developed by the enlightened reformers. Likewise, it explores how this matrix of perception was projected onto the Cuna indigenous people to represent them as "barbarians" and "rebels" who derived their moral character, cultural patterns and capacity for resistance, from a geographical and biological environment that was equally "wild" and untameable.

Palabras clave : Darien; tropical nature; colonial landscape; Bourbon reformism; Cuna In-dians; cultural resistance.

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