Karen B Graubart
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 453496 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen B Graubart |
| NOMBRES | Karen B |
| APELLIDO | Graubart |
| FIRMA | GRAUBART K B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2919-6794 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Dialogic Depositions
This article presents a methodology for identifying the influence of free Black women in a set of Spanish legal documents. In response to a 1574 decree imposing tribute on them, Panamá’s free men and women of African descent collectively petitioned for exemption on the basis of their poverty and decades of uncompensated military service. They presented sworn depositions from twenty of the city’s Spanish notables in support. This essay analyzes th…
Global Servants of the Spanish King
The Capital of Free Women
Entangled Coercion. African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th–17th Century), by Paola A. Revilla Orías
African Kings and Black Slaves
As Slaves and Not Vassals
Across much of the Spanish empire in the Americas, indigenous and African-descent peoples lived in close contact. The entangled nature of labor, both in urban centers and on massive complexes, gave them the opportunity to measure themselves against one another. Law that developed across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggested an eventual clarity about their separate conditions, but experience revealed the muddiness of both definitions a…
Nancy E. van Deusen. Embodying the Sacred
Lima was the American epicenter of baroque Catholic culture, Nancy van Deusen tells us, and women of all classes and races were active participants in its sacrality. A city composed mostly of women (57 percent in 1700), many living apart from men, Lima offered a variety of spaces in which they could touch the divine, from formal convents and beaterios to processions of saintly bodies through the streets. With Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics i…
Imperial Conviviality
Late medieval and early modern Iberian monarchs governed through a competitive delegation of certain forms of jurisdiction. This created a tense form of everyday conviviality, wherein group members were intimately knowledgeable about aspects of the laws of other groups. The analytic of conviviality reveals the ways that consensus had to be constantly renegotiated within multiple group dynamics rather than imposed or achieved
The Experiential Caribbean
Reviewed by: The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo F. Gómez Karen B. Graubart Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xxii + 292 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-1-4696-3086-1). While recent historiographical trends have unseated Europe as the sole center of scientific knowledge in …
Imperial Conviviality
Late medieval and early modern Iberian monarchs governed through a competitive delegation of certain forms of jurisdiction. They invited corporate groups, including frontier settlers and urban citizens, but also resident Muslims and Jews, or indigenous peoples of the Americas, to live under customary law that was legitimated under conditions of close interaction and cohabitation. This created a tense form of everyday conviviality, wherein group m…
Shifting landscapes. Heterogeneous conceptions of land use and tenure in the Lima valley
This essay argues that Andean and Spanish agents both brought a spectrum of understandings of land tenure and land use to their colonial interactions. After a critical survey of what is known about practices in the Andes and Iberia prior to conquest, it turns to specific cases of property conflict and entangled definitions in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in the Rimac Valley, Peru. There heterogeneous definitions of both use and t…
Gendered Crossings. Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
The Inka Empire
Historians have lately troubled the idea of empire, provincializing and dislocating the concept of a hegemonic or contained network of economic, political, and cultural ties. Tawantinsuyu, or the realm of four parts, was understood not so much as a contained place as a set of directions from Cuzco, its center, toward the spaces that the Inca sought to dominate. They created physical signs—palaces, roads, bridges—that made claims on land and peopl…
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Reviewed by: The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru by José R. Jouve Martín Karen B. Graubart José R. Jouve Martín. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xxvii + 209 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-7735-4341-6). This lively monograph examines the changing medical profession in late c…
The Limits of Gender Domination. Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765–1830
Learning from theQadi
The political jurisdiction of the colonial cacique, or ethnic lord, is often understood to have been truncated or undermined by Spanish political administration. But the role of the cacique was also key to enabling Spanish administrators to extract wealth from native communities. What exactly that role was is undocumented in Spanish-language archival materials. By examining recent literature on the Iberian qadi, or judge of the Islamic community …
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
William Phillips Jr.'s synthesis of the history of premodern Iberian slavery arrives in time to be a guide to the explosion of medieval historical studies on the region. Readable and straightforward, it should return Iberia to a central place in the history of Atlantic slavery.Iberia was the first European node in the development of the Atlantic slave trade. Before that, the peninsula was a multiethnic, multiconfessional region whose inhabitants …
Bound Lives
Rachel O’Toole’s new book focuses upon the valleys of Chicama and Trujillo, on the north coast of Peru. It is an excellent vantage point to witness the interrelations of Andeans, Africans, and Spaniards. A city in Lima’s shadow, Trujillo was home to an entrenched old conquistador aristocracy but also to numerous indigenous communities and an African population comprised mostly of slaves on coastal estates. The region’s Spanish and indigenous popu…
Sabine MacCormack (1941-2012)
Born into a war-torn Germany, Sabine MacCormack had a peripatetic childhood, and she only learned to read and write when she was eight, finally settling at her grandmother’s home in Bavaria, where she attended a Catholic school. She completed her education in a gymnasium, which gave her a remarkable grounding in Latin and Greek that she would draw upon for the rest of her career. She studied classics and history at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, d…
So color de una cofradía’
Enslaved and free Africans in Lima, Peru, joined Catholic cofradías (religious sodalities) in order to form community. As they did this, they also discovered and created fissures within their number. Early cofradía records demonstrate how Afro-descent communities drew upon their contemporary experiences, including adapting the European rhetoric of ‘difference’ deployed against them to identify and police their own divisions during the first centu…
Toward Connectedness and Place
The Creolization of the New World
This article investigates two local coinages used in notarial documents, especially wills and real estate sales contracts, in urban early colonial Peru: the "indio solarero" and the "indio criollo." These terms, apparently invented by the indigenous parties or with their approval, suggest that these residents were inventing new roles for themselves and took pains to bring attention to their new social positions as property-owners ("solarero," or …
De qadis y caciques
El presente ensayo sugiere una conexión entre la limitada autonomía concedida a las comunidades indígenas del Nuevo Mundo, gobernadas por un cacique, y aquella concedida previamente a las comunidades mudéjares o musulmanas de la península Ibérica medieval, gobernadas por un qadi. La relación entre ambas estructuras es evidente no solo en términos de la ley y la organización ideal del espacio, sino también en términos del fracaso de dichas estruct…
With Our Labor and Sweat
Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in Peru during the first two centuries of Spanish colonization. Using wills, as well as other notarial and legal documents, it discusses changes in their working lives and how their identity as "Indians" as well as women was shaped in a multicultural society. From their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to th…
Trading Roles
The silver-rich city of Potosí grabbed the imaginations of treasure seekers across the colonial world, but Jane Mangan’s study of its developing economy reveals that it held prospects for those who strove for more quotidian needs as well. Potosí’s economy, after the discovery of the Cerro Rico in 1545, was dominated by the silver trade and its effects: in particular, the provisioning of the tens of thousands of Andean men and women who came to wo…
With Our Labor and Sweat
Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in Peru during the first two centuries of Spanish colonization. Using wills, as well as other notarial and legal documents, it discusses changes in their working lives and how their identity as "Indians" as well as women was shaped in a multicultural society. From their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to th…
The Creolization of the New World
This article investigates two local coinages used in notarial documents, especially wills and real estate sales contracts, in urban early colonial Peru: the "indio solarero" and the "indio criollo." These terms, apparently invented by the indigenous parties or with their approval, suggest that these residents were inventing new roles for themselves and took pains to bring attention to their new social positions as property-owners ("solarero," or …
So color de una cofradía’
Enslaved and free Africans in Lima, Peru, joined Catholic cofradías (religious sodalities) in order to form community. As they did this, they also discovered and created fissures within their number. Early cofradía records demonstrate how Afro-descent communities drew upon their contemporary experiences, including adapting the European rhetoric of ‘difference’ deployed against them to identify and police their own divisions during the first centu…
Indecent Living
Shifting landscapes. Heterogeneous conceptions of land use and tenure in the Lima valley
This essay argues that Andean and Spanish agents both brought a spectrum of understandings of land tenure and land use to their colonial interactions. After a critical survey of what is known about practices in the Andes and Iberia prior to conquest, it turns to specific cases of property conflict and entangled definitions in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in the Rimac Valley, Peru. There heterogeneous definitions of both use and t…
Weaving and the Construction of a Gender Division of Labor in Early Colonial Peru
The European conquest and colonization of Peru in the sixteenth century radically transformed that society's regional economies, both in terms of what was to be produced and how production would be organized. While the introduction of new commodities and forms of exchange, and the colonial systems of tribute and mita or forced labor, have been well documented and analyzed, investigations into the lived experience of work have been less abundant. …
Learning from theQadi
The political jurisdiction of the colonial cacique, or ethnic lord, is often understood to have been truncated or undermined by Spanish political administration. But the role of the cacique was also key to enabling Spanish administrators to extract wealth from native communities. What exactly that role was is undocumented in Spanish-language archival materials. By examining recent literature on the Iberian qadi, or judge of the Islamic community …
Toward Connectedness and Place
Imperial Conviviality
Late medieval and early modern Iberian monarchs governed through a competitive delegation of certain forms of jurisdiction. They invited corporate groups, including frontier settlers and urban citizens, but also resident Muslims and Jews, or indigenous peoples of the Americas, to live under customary law that was legitimated under conditions of close interaction and cohabitation. This created a tense form of everyday conviviality, wherein group m…
Bound Lives
Rachel O’Toole’s new book focuses upon the valleys of Chicama and Trujillo, on the north coast of Peru. It is an excellent vantage point to witness the interrelations of Andeans, Africans, and Spaniards. A city in Lima’s shadow, Trujillo was home to an entrenched old conquistador aristocracy but also to numerous indigenous communities and an African population comprised mostly of slaves on coastal estates. The region’s Spanish and indigenous popu…
As Slaves and Not Vassals
Across much of the Spanish empire in the Americas, indigenous and African-descent peoples lived in close contact. The entangled nature of labor, both in urban centers and on massive complexes, gave them the opportunity to measure themselves against one another. Law that developed across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggested an eventual clarity about their separate conditions, but experience revealed the muddiness of both definitions a…
De qadis y caciques
El presente ensayo sugiere una conexión entre la limitada autonomía concedida a las comunidades indígenas del Nuevo Mundo, gobernadas por un cacique, y aquella concedida previamente a las comunidades mudéjares o musulmanas de la península Ibérica medieval, gobernadas por un qadi. La relación entre ambas estructuras es evidente no solo en términos de la ley y la organización ideal del espacio, sino también en términos del fracaso de dichas estruct…
Indecent Living
Weaving and the Construction of a Gender Division of Labor in Early Colonial Peru
The European conquest and colonization of Peru in the sixteenth century radically transformed that society's regional economies, both in terms of what was to be produced and how production would be organized. While the introduction of new commodities and forms of exchange, and the colonial systems of tribute and mita or forced labor, have been well documented and analyzed, investigations into the lived experience of work have been less abundant. …
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Pedro de Cieza de León, the “prince of Peruvian chroniclers,” traveled widely in South America between 1535 and 1550, acting as a conquistador, a member of the royalist army that defeated Gonzalo Pizarro in Peru and a protoethnographer and chronicler of the realm. These travels, aided by his political connection to the president of the Audiencia, Pedro de la Gasca, then became fodder for a series of four manuscripts describing the conquest and se…
Signs of the Inca Khipu
Andeanists have long bemoaned the dearth of readable pre-Hispanic texts, as opposed to our colleagues in Mexico who can pore over at least a few pictographic codices and maps as counterpoint to colonial chronicles. In this absence, Andeanists have turned fruitfully to material culture, reading vessels, textiles, architecture, and other artifacts for clues to social and cultural life before the Spanish Conquest. But the pre-Hispanic Andes were not…
Trading Roles
The silver-rich city of Potosí grabbed the imaginations of treasure seekers across the colonial world, but Jane Mangan’s study of its developing economy reveals that it held prospects for those who strove for more quotidian needs as well. Potosí’s economy, after the discovery of the Cerro Rico in 1545, was dominated by the silver trade and its effects: in particular, the provisioning of the tens of thousands of Andean men and women who came to wo…
With Our Labor and Sweat
Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in Peru during the first two centuries of Spanish colonization. Using wills, as well as other notarial and legal documents, it discusses changes in their working lives and how their identity as "Indians" as well as women was shaped in a multicultural society. From their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to th…
De qadis y caciques
El presente ensayo sugiere una conexión entre la limitada autonomía concedida a las comunidades indígenas del Nuevo Mundo, gobernadas por un cacique, y aquella concedida previamente a las comunidades mudéjares o musulmanas de la península Ibérica medieval, gobernadas por un qadi. La relación entre ambas estructuras es evidente no solo en términos de la ley y la organización ideal del espacio, sino también en términos del fracaso de dichas estruct…
The Creolization of the New World
This article investigates two local coinages used in notarial documents, especially wills and real estate sales contracts, in urban early colonial Peru: the "indio solarero" and the "indio criollo." These terms, apparently invented by the indigenous parties or with their approval, suggest that these residents were inventing new roles for themselves and took pains to bring attention to their new social positions as property-owners ("solarero," or …
So color de una cofradía’
Enslaved and free Africans in Lima, Peru, joined Catholic cofradías (religious sodalities) in order to form community. As they did this, they also discovered and created fissures within their number. Early cofradía records demonstrate how Afro-descent communities drew upon their contemporary experiences, including adapting the European rhetoric of ‘difference’ deployed against them to identify and police their own divisions during the first centu…
Toward Connectedness and Place
Bound Lives
Rachel O’Toole’s new book focuses upon the valleys of Chicama and Trujillo, on the north coast of Peru. It is an excellent vantage point to witness the interrelations of Andeans, Africans, and Spaniards. A city in Lima’s shadow, Trujillo was home to an entrenched old conquistador aristocracy but also to numerous indigenous communities and an African population comprised mostly of slaves on coastal estates. The region’s Spanish and indigenous popu…
Sabine MacCormack (1941-2012)
Born into a war-torn Germany, Sabine MacCormack had a peripatetic childhood, and she only learned to read and write when she was eight, finally settling at her grandmother’s home in Bavaria, where she attended a Catholic school. She completed her education in a gymnasium, which gave her a remarkable grounding in Latin and Greek that she would draw upon for the rest of her career. She studied classics and history at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, d…
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
William Phillips Jr.'s synthesis of the history of premodern Iberian slavery arrives in time to be a guide to the explosion of medieval historical studies on the region. Readable and straightforward, it should return Iberia to a central place in the history of Atlantic slavery.Iberia was the first European node in the development of the Atlantic slave trade. Before that, the peninsula was a multiethnic, multiconfessional region whose inhabitants …
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima
Reviewed by: The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru by José R. Jouve Martín Karen B. Graubart José R. Jouve Martín. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. xxvii + 209 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-7735-4341-6). This lively monograph examines the changing medical profession in late c…
The Limits of Gender Domination. Women, the Law, and Political Crisis in Quito, 1765–1830
Learning from theQadi
The political jurisdiction of the colonial cacique, or ethnic lord, is often understood to have been truncated or undermined by Spanish political administration. But the role of the cacique was also key to enabling Spanish administrators to extract wealth from native communities. What exactly that role was is undocumented in Spanish-language archival materials. By examining recent literature on the Iberian qadi, or judge of the Islamic community …
Gendered Crossings. Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire
The Inka Empire
Historians have lately troubled the idea of empire, provincializing and dislocating the concept of a hegemonic or contained network of economic, political, and cultural ties. Tawantinsuyu, or the realm of four parts, was understood not so much as a contained place as a set of directions from Cuzco, its center, toward the spaces that the Inca sought to dominate. They created physical signs—palaces, roads, bridges—that made claims on land and peopl…
Shifting landscapes. Heterogeneous conceptions of land use and tenure in the Lima valley
This essay argues that Andean and Spanish agents both brought a spectrum of understandings of land tenure and land use to their colonial interactions. After a critical survey of what is known about practices in the Andes and Iberia prior to conquest, it turns to specific cases of property conflict and entangled definitions in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in the Rimac Valley, Peru. There heterogeneous definitions of both use and t…
The Experiential Caribbean
Reviewed by: The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo F. Gómez Karen B. Graubart Pablo F. Gómez. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. xxii + 292 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-1-4696-3086-1). While recent historiographical trends have unseated Europe as the sole center of scientific knowledge in …
Imperial Conviviality
Late medieval and early modern Iberian monarchs governed through a competitive delegation of certain forms of jurisdiction. They invited corporate groups, including frontier settlers and urban citizens, but also resident Muslims and Jews, or indigenous peoples of the Americas, to live under customary law that was legitimated under conditions of close interaction and cohabitation. This created a tense form of everyday conviviality, wherein group m…
Nancy E. van Deusen. Embodying the Sacred
Lima was the American epicenter of baroque Catholic culture, Nancy van Deusen tells us, and women of all classes and races were active participants in its sacrality. A city composed mostly of women (57 percent in 1700), many living apart from men, Lima offered a variety of spaces in which they could touch the divine, from formal convents and beaterios to processions of saintly bodies through the streets. With Embodying the Sacred: Women Mystics i…
Imperial Conviviality
Late medieval and early modern Iberian monarchs governed through a competitive delegation of certain forms of jurisdiction. This created a tense form of everyday conviviality, wherein group members were intimately knowledgeable about aspects of the laws of other groups. The analytic of conviviality reveals the ways that consensus had to be constantly renegotiated within multiple group dynamics rather than imposed or achieved
African Kings and Black Slaves
As Slaves and Not Vassals
Across much of the Spanish empire in the Americas, indigenous and African-descent peoples lived in close contact. The entangled nature of labor, both in urban centers and on massive complexes, gave them the opportunity to measure themselves against one another. Law that developed across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggested an eventual clarity about their separate conditions, but experience revealed the muddiness of both definitions a…
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