Code   .  CEECIND/02544/2018

Start   .   2020
Duration   .   72 months
Principal Investigator   .  Gleydi Sullón Barreto

Institutions

Funding Entity

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Research Unit

CHAM — Centre for the Humanities

Coordinating Institution

Image 1: Morales Padrón, Francisco, Atlas histórico cultural de América, t.II, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1988, p. 410. Image 2: BNE, R/22248(1) PL2, Georg BRAUN, Lisboa (Portugal), Planos de población, 1598. [S.l], [s.n], [1598]. Reproduced from the digital version available on the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (PID BDH 0000026608).

This project dwells on intellectual displacement, on the mobility of objects and ideas through the transnational networks established within Africa and Europe by negritudinists, Pan-African or anti-colonial writers and intellectuals from the 1950s to the 1970s. Furthermore, it intends to counteract the underrepresentation of women’s agency in the historical narrations produced about, and in, those cultural environments.

This project aims to analyse the social life, economic culture, and the complex identities of Portuguese residents of Lima, as well as the corregimientos of Piura, Trujillo, and Cajamarca, from 1570 to 1700. The 1642 census-register of the Portuguese, and the notarial documents deposited in the archives of Peru, will constitute the evidentiary basis of this study. This will make it possible to identify the social bonds, economic activities, material culture, and the religious practices of the Portuguese in Peru in the years immediately following the outbreak of the Portuguese revolt of 1640. This study, which will focus on representative cases, will further our understanding of the sense of identity and belonging, and the attitudes of these individuals in relation to both their native and adopted homelands.The methodological model proposed will combine group analysis and the analysis of interpersonal ties, with a theoretical approach centred on the individual and on social interaction as a motor of social change.

GOALS

This project will analyse the extent to which the Portuguese rebellion and the war between the two Iberian empires disrupted the social life and the economic activities of the Portuguese in the cities of Lima, Piura, Trujillo and Cajamarca, over an extended period of time. It will also aim to understand the attitudes of these individuals to their Portuguese patria, and the mechanisms of control implemented by the Spanish authorities. In contrast to Castile, where the resident Portuguese vacillated between loyalty to Madrid or Lisbon [1,3,17], this was never an issue in Peru. The 1640 revolt probably placed some strain on the sense of national identity among the Portuguese, but there was no manifest desire to join the rebellion, or to leave Peru. After the outbreak of the revolt, and despite the fact that the Portuguese were obliged to formally register their names and hand over their weapons to the authorities, the social, economic, and cultural interactions at the local level continued unabated.