Nancy E Van Deusen
Biographic Data
| ID | 455838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy E Van Deusen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Deusen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEUSEN N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Indigenous war captives and mobility-oriented punishments: An Atlantic-Mediterranean world perspective
This study explores two well-known case studies involving the removal of Indigenous war captives from their places of origin to fortifications or to Mediterranean galley ships to do forced labor. I draw on known scholarship on Indigenous war captives in New England and New France during the seventeenth century to consider the local conditions in Europe and North America that created the possibility for the dispersal of captives. Europeans moved I…
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive
This article focuses on ways of thinking productively about Indigenous freedom litigation suits, how scholars read that documentary record, whether we can give voice to the voiceless, and how ways of reading litigation records that included records from the ‘deep archive’, namely notorial and parish records, can inform epistemological seeing and knowledge mobilization. It is a cautionary tale that encourages a careful approach to slavery’s archiv…
W hy I ndigenous S lavery C ontinued in S panish A merica after the N ew L aws of 1542
A prevailing idea in the scholarly literature is that the New Laws of 1542 outlawed the enslavement of indios (Indigenous people of the Spanish Indies, a category invented by Europeans) in Spanish America. Many see the enactment of this legislation as emblematic of the Spanish crown's exertion of imperial authority over the conquerors who had caused irreparable damage to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This article contests this prevailin…
In the Tethered Shadow: Native American Slavery, African Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Past
Reflecting on advances in research on Indigenous slavery in the Americas is essential. But it is also imperative to step back and consider why Indigenous slavery only gained a significant foothold in academic studies in the twenty-first century. This article considers several reasons why Indigenous slavery in the Americas was, until recently, considered no more than a short-lived preamble to the horrors of the enslavement of Africans. The topic o…
Indigenous Slavery's Archive in Seventeenth-Century Chile
This article considers the creation and activation of certification documents codifying the capture-event and moment of enslavement of Reche-Mapuche people during the Araucanian wars with Spanish settlers in seventeenth-century Chile. Certification documents were normalized by the military bureaucracy and activated by slave owners who subjected and maintained Reche-Mapuche men, women, and children in bondage. These documents were foundational bec…
Indigenous Slavery from Out on the Edge
This article is a call to render the rare modicums, odd classifications, and normalization of indigenous slave practices in documents legible and then magnify them and connect them to broader considerations of slavery. Statistical anomalies and unusual stories found in archives are, in fact, central to the assessments of the enormity and depth of indigenous slavery. Moreover, the appearance of outliers in documents helps to address some of the me…
The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire. By Premo, Bianca. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 361 pp. Paper, $35.00. Nancy E. van Deusen Nancy E. van Deusen Queen's University Search for other works by this author on:…
Passing in sixteenth-century Castile
This article explores passing as a way to gain insights into the multiple ways that processes of identification of enslaved individuals could occur in Castile, the heart of the Spanish empire. In a court case that began in 1552, the pressing matter at hand was whether Beatríz/Violante was, in fact, an india. Impersonations of freed persons did occur, and slave owners purposefully misidentified their slaves or conflated them with other, deceased s…
Michelle A. McKinley. Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700, by Michelle McKinley, is a must-read book. Focusing on the seventeenth-century urban environment of Lima, one of two viceregal capitals of the Spanish Empire with a large enslaved and free African and African-descent population, McKinley meticulously, incisively, and insightfully considers the historical context within which the legal mobilization of slave…
Indios on the move in the sixteenth-century Iberian world
Between 1572 and 1575, a man named Diego litigated for his freedom from slavery in several Spanish courts. Identified as an Indio (Indian), he claimed to have been born in the Spanish territory of Liampo (now Ningbo), China, and later carried on a Spanish ship to Mexico, and eventually to Seville. His master, the cleric Juan de Morales, asserted that he had bought Diego in Portuguese Goa and taken him to Mozambique and to Lisbon before finally br…
Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous "Servitude" in the Sixteenth Century
Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous 'Servitude' in the Sixteenth Century" examines the circumstances of three indigenous criados (servants)-Pedro, Juan, and Francisco Manuel-with direct or indirect ties of patronage to the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés. As nonelite indios (Indians) displaced from Mexico to Castile, they experienced the transition from freedom to bondage in unique ways. Because the New Laws (1542) stated that, in principle…
Seeing Indios in Sixteenth-Century Castile
Diasporas, Bondage, and Intimacy in Lima, 1535 to 1555
An entry recorded in the baptismal records of the Cathedral parish of Lima in January 1540 read as follows: On this day, the said priest baptized Pedro, son of Juana, an Indian from Cuzco and an un
Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualisation in Early Seventeenth‐Century Lima
In early seventeenth‐century Lima, Peru, female visionaries composed texts of their bodies, and texts composed their bodies. This fact can be explained, in part, by the belief that an individual could gain access to and appropriate the language of God (His spiritus ) in distinct ways. Mystical narratives, stigmata, as well as the spoken words of enraptured visionaries communicating with absent souls were considered readable texts because the obje…
An Interview with María Rostworowski
The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
As the title to this anthology suggests, honor in Latin and Luso-American societies had many faces, and each of the eight contributors gives careful consideration to its contextual representations across race, class, and gender lines. In the introduction, editors Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera point to the broad range of interpretations of honor; depending upon the context, it could denote status, hierarchy, or virtue. Elites, plebeian…
The ‘Alienated’ Body: Slaves and Castas in the Hospital de San Bartolomé in Lima, 1680 to 1700
“A machine which does not serve the purpose of labor is useless. So a slave who becomes equated with a machine is useless when some component part no longer works.” (Karl Marx, Manuscripts , 459) “ Verás de abanzada edad A muchos bozales negros Que al público pensionando Están después que sirvieron .” For years after the 1687 earthquake had devastated much of Lima, various published sermons pondered the significance of the inauspicious event. One…
Determining the Boundaries of Virtue: The Discourse of Recogimiento Among Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima
This article explores the meanings of the concept of recogimiento, a virtue related to honor and physical enclosure as it was expressed in the marital litigation testimonies of women of all racial and class backgrounds in Lima between 1650 and 1700. Elite, humble, and nonwhite women alike claimed honor as part of their identity in ways that were distinct from concepts of male honor and definitions of sexual purity. Married women attempted to defi…
Ensayos sobre historia latinoamericana
Los primeros recogimientos para doncellas mestizas en Lima y Cusco, 1550 - 1580
A través del estudio del recogimiento, una institución para mujeres y niñas que aún se encuentran en los márgenes de la investigación histórica, se puede acceder a nuevas perspectivas sobre los mecanismos sociales y económicos del periodo colonial temprano. Uno de los primeros problemas que tuvieron que confrontar las autoridades españolas y ciudadanos eminentes fue el de la primera generación de mestizos, niños nacidos en el seno de uniones lici…
Seeing Indios in Sixteenth-Century Castile
The ‘Alienated’ Body: Slaves and Castas in the Hospital de San Bartolomé in Lima, 1680 to 1700
“A machine which does not serve the purpose of labor is useless. So a slave who becomes equated with a machine is useless when some component part no longer works.” (Karl Marx, Manuscripts , 459) “ Verás de abanzada edad A muchos bozales negros Que al público pensionando Están después que sirvieron .” For years after the 1687 earthquake had devastated much of Lima, various published sermons pondered the significance of the inauspicious event. One…
Diasporas, Bondage, and Intimacy in Lima, 1535 to 1555
An entry recorded in the baptismal records of the Cathedral parish of Lima in January 1540 read as follows: On this day, the said priest baptized Pedro, son of Juana, an Indian from Cuzco and an un
W hy I ndigenous S lavery C ontinued in S panish A merica after the N ew L aws of 1542
A prevailing idea in the scholarly literature is that the New Laws of 1542 outlawed the enslavement of indios (Indigenous people of the Spanish Indies, a category invented by Europeans) in Spanish America. Many see the enactment of this legislation as emblematic of the Spanish crown's exertion of imperial authority over the conquerors who had caused irreparable damage to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This article contests this prevailin…
Indios on the move in the sixteenth-century Iberian world
Between 1572 and 1575, a man named Diego litigated for his freedom from slavery in several Spanish courts. Identified as an Indio (Indian), he claimed to have been born in the Spanish territory of Liampo (now Ningbo), China, and later carried on a Spanish ship to Mexico, and eventually to Seville. His master, the cleric Juan de Morales, asserted that he had bought Diego in Portuguese Goa and taken him to Mozambique and to Lisbon before finally br…
Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous "Servitude" in the Sixteenth Century
Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous 'Servitude' in the Sixteenth Century" examines the circumstances of three indigenous criados (servants)-Pedro, Juan, and Francisco Manuel-with direct or indirect ties of patronage to the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés. As nonelite indios (Indians) displaced from Mexico to Castile, they experienced the transition from freedom to bondage in unique ways. Because the New Laws (1542) stated that, in principle…
Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualisation in Early Seventeenth‐Century Lima
In early seventeenth‐century Lima, Peru, female visionaries composed texts of their bodies, and texts composed their bodies. This fact can be explained, in part, by the belief that an individual could gain access to and appropriate the language of God (His spiritus ) in distinct ways. Mystical narratives, stigmata, as well as the spoken words of enraptured visionaries communicating with absent souls were considered readable texts because the obje…
Los primeros recogimientos para doncellas mestizas en Lima y Cusco, 1550 - 1580
A través del estudio del recogimiento, una institución para mujeres y niñas que aún se encuentran en los márgenes de la investigación histórica, se puede acceder a nuevas perspectivas sobre los mecanismos sociales y económicos del periodo colonial temprano. Uno de los primeros problemas que tuvieron que confrontar las autoridades españolas y ciudadanos eminentes fue el de la primera generación de mestizos, niños nacidos en el seno de uniones lici…
In the Tethered Shadow: Native American Slavery, African Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Past
Reflecting on advances in research on Indigenous slavery in the Americas is essential. But it is also imperative to step back and consider why Indigenous slavery only gained a significant foothold in academic studies in the twenty-first century. This article considers several reasons why Indigenous slavery in the Americas was, until recently, considered no more than a short-lived preamble to the horrors of the enslavement of Africans. The topic o…
Indigenous Slavery's Archive in Seventeenth-Century Chile
This article considers the creation and activation of certification documents codifying the capture-event and moment of enslavement of Reche-Mapuche people during the Araucanian wars with Spanish settlers in seventeenth-century Chile. Certification documents were normalized by the military bureaucracy and activated by slave owners who subjected and maintained Reche-Mapuche men, women, and children in bondage. These documents were foundational bec…
Indigenous Slavery from Out on the Edge
This article is a call to render the rare modicums, odd classifications, and normalization of indigenous slave practices in documents legible and then magnify them and connect them to broader considerations of slavery. Statistical anomalies and unusual stories found in archives are, in fact, central to the assessments of the enormity and depth of indigenous slavery. Moreover, the appearance of outliers in documents helps to address some of the me…
Passing in sixteenth-century Castile
This article explores passing as a way to gain insights into the multiple ways that processes of identification of enslaved individuals could occur in Castile, the heart of the Spanish empire. In a court case that began in 1552, the pressing matter at hand was whether Beatríz/Violante was, in fact, an india. Impersonations of freed persons did occur, and slave owners purposefully misidentified their slaves or conflated them with other, deceased s…
Determining the Boundaries of Virtue: The Discourse of Recogimiento Among Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima
This article explores the meanings of the concept of recogimiento, a virtue related to honor and physical enclosure as it was expressed in the marital litigation testimonies of women of all racial and class backgrounds in Lima between 1650 and 1700. Elite, humble, and nonwhite women alike claimed honor as part of their identity in ways that were distinct from concepts of male honor and definitions of sexual purity. Married women attempted to defi…
Los primeros recogimientos para doncellas mestizas en Lima y Cusco, 1550 - 1580
A través del estudio del recogimiento, una institución para mujeres y niñas que aún se encuentran en los márgenes de la investigación histórica, se puede acceder a nuevas perspectivas sobre los mecanismos sociales y económicos del periodo colonial temprano. Uno de los primeros problemas que tuvieron que confrontar las autoridades españolas y ciudadanos eminentes fue el de la primera generación de mestizos, niños nacidos en el seno de uniones lici…
Ensayos sobre historia latinoamericana
Determining the Boundaries of Virtue: The Discourse of Recogimiento Among Women in Seventeenth-Century Lima
This article explores the meanings of the concept of recogimiento, a virtue related to honor and physical enclosure as it was expressed in the marital litigation testimonies of women of all racial and class backgrounds in Lima between 1650 and 1700. Elite, humble, and nonwhite women alike claimed honor as part of their identity in ways that were distinct from concepts of male honor and definitions of sexual purity. Married women attempted to defi…
The ‘Alienated’ Body: Slaves and Castas in the Hospital de San Bartolomé in Lima, 1680 to 1700
“A machine which does not serve the purpose of labor is useless. So a slave who becomes equated with a machine is useless when some component part no longer works.” (Karl Marx, Manuscripts , 459) “ Verás de abanzada edad A muchos bozales negros Que al público pensionando Están después que sirvieron .” For years after the 1687 earthquake had devastated much of Lima, various published sermons pondered the significance of the inauspicious event. One…
An Interview with María Rostworowski
The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America
As the title to this anthology suggests, honor in Latin and Luso-American societies had many faces, and each of the eight contributors gives careful consideration to its contextual representations across race, class, and gender lines. In the introduction, editors Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera point to the broad range of interpretations of honor; depending upon the context, it could denote status, hierarchy, or virtue. Elites, plebeian…
Reading the Body: Mystical Theology and Spiritual Actualisation in Early Seventeenth‐Century Lima
In early seventeenth‐century Lima, Peru, female visionaries composed texts of their bodies, and texts composed their bodies. This fact can be explained, in part, by the belief that an individual could gain access to and appropriate the language of God (His spiritus ) in distinct ways. Mystical narratives, stigmata, as well as the spoken words of enraptured visionaries communicating with absent souls were considered readable texts because the obje…
Diasporas, Bondage, and Intimacy in Lima, 1535 to 1555
An entry recorded in the baptismal records of the Cathedral parish of Lima in January 1540 read as follows: On this day, the said priest baptized Pedro, son of Juana, an Indian from Cuzco and an un
Seeing Indios in Sixteenth-Century Castile
Indios on the move in the sixteenth-century Iberian world
Between 1572 and 1575, a man named Diego litigated for his freedom from slavery in several Spanish courts. Identified as an Indio (Indian), he claimed to have been born in the Spanish territory of Liampo (now Ningbo), China, and later carried on a Spanish ship to Mexico, and eventually to Seville. His master, the cleric Juan de Morales, asserted that he had bought Diego in Portuguese Goa and taken him to Mozambique and to Lisbon before finally br…
Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous "Servitude" in the Sixteenth Century
Coming to Castile with Cortés: Indigenous 'Servitude' in the Sixteenth Century" examines the circumstances of three indigenous criados (servants)-Pedro, Juan, and Francisco Manuel-with direct or indirect ties of patronage to the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés. As nonelite indios (Indians) displaced from Mexico to Castile, they experienced the transition from freedom to bondage in unique ways. Because the New Laws (1542) stated that, in principle…
Passing in sixteenth-century Castile
This article explores passing as a way to gain insights into the multiple ways that processes of identification of enslaved individuals could occur in Castile, the heart of the Spanish empire. In a court case that began in 1552, the pressing matter at hand was whether Beatríz/Violante was, in fact, an india. Impersonations of freed persons did occur, and slave owners purposefully misidentified their slaves or conflated them with other, deceased s…
Michelle A. McKinley. Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700
Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700, by Michelle McKinley, is a must-read book. Focusing on the seventeenth-century urban environment of Lima, one of two viceregal capitals of the Spanish Empire with a large enslaved and free African and African-descent population, McKinley meticulously, incisively, and insightfully considers the historical context within which the legal mobilization of slave…
The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire. By Premo, Bianca. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 361 pp. Paper, $35.00. Nancy E. van Deusen Nancy E. van Deusen Queen's University Search for other works by this author on:…
Indigenous Slavery from Out on the Edge
This article is a call to render the rare modicums, odd classifications, and normalization of indigenous slave practices in documents legible and then magnify them and connect them to broader considerations of slavery. Statistical anomalies and unusual stories found in archives are, in fact, central to the assessments of the enormity and depth of indigenous slavery. Moreover, the appearance of outliers in documents helps to address some of the me…
Indigenous Slavery's Archive in Seventeenth-Century Chile
This article considers the creation and activation of certification documents codifying the capture-event and moment of enslavement of Reche-Mapuche people during the Araucanian wars with Spanish settlers in seventeenth-century Chile. Certification documents were normalized by the military bureaucracy and activated by slave owners who subjected and maintained Reche-Mapuche men, women, and children in bondage. These documents were foundational bec…
Indigenous war captives and mobility-oriented punishments: An Atlantic-Mediterranean world perspective
This study explores two well-known case studies involving the removal of Indigenous war captives from their places of origin to fortifications or to Mediterranean galley ships to do forced labor. I draw on known scholarship on Indigenous war captives in New England and New France during the seventeenth century to consider the local conditions in Europe and North America that created the possibility for the dispersal of captives. Europeans moved I…
Indigenous Freedom Suits, Epistemological Mobilities, and the Deep Archive
This article focuses on ways of thinking productively about Indigenous freedom litigation suits, how scholars read that documentary record, whether we can give voice to the voiceless, and how ways of reading litigation records that included records from the ‘deep archive’, namely notorial and parish records, can inform epistemological seeing and knowledge mobilization. It is a cautionary tale that encourages a careful approach to slavery’s archiv…
W hy I ndigenous S lavery C ontinued in S panish A merica after the N ew L aws of 1542
A prevailing idea in the scholarly literature is that the New Laws of 1542 outlawed the enslavement of indios (Indigenous people of the Spanish Indies, a category invented by Europeans) in Spanish America. Many see the enactment of this legislation as emblematic of the Spanish crown's exertion of imperial authority over the conquerors who had caused irreparable damage to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This article contests this prevailin…
In the Tethered Shadow: Native American Slavery, African Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Past
Reflecting on advances in research on Indigenous slavery in the Americas is essential. But it is also imperative to step back and consider why Indigenous slavery only gained a significant foothold in academic studies in the twenty-first century. This article considers several reasons why Indigenous slavery in the Americas was, until recently, considered no more than a short-lived preamble to the horrors of the enslavement of Africans. The topic o…
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