Indian ethnic groups in colonial America People of color: canonical discursive construction in Ordinationes by Domingo Muriel S.J (1776)

Authors

Julieta María Teresa Consigli

Keywords:

colonial studies, neo-Latin literature, jesuit production, studies of mentalities

Synopsis

This work, which falls within the field of “Colonial Studies and Neo-Latin Literature” and “Studies of Mentalities,” focuses on one of the works of Father Domingo Muriel and aims to contribute to Jesuit production and the area of ancient collections. The first part addresses the problem of the discursive construction of certain selected passages from the Fastos and the typological analysis of the main American racial groups, which sheds light on the theme of Indian ethnic groups and the social and religious exclusion-inclusion of Indians, mixed-race people, and particularly Black people, as the central focus of the thesis. The consideration of “people of color” in their various classifications is the basic substrate for understanding the canonical legislation that, together with royal law and social practices, largely defines the New World. The text of the Fastos combines theoretical and rhetorical aspects (typical of the 18th century) that demonstrate the author's effort to reorganize a vast amount of geographical, scientific, and ethnographic material in order to also organize a reality and configure it discursively to position it as a cultural fact that had to be legislated, evangelized, and socialized.

The second part offers the first complete Spanish translation of the selected excerpts, which corresponds to the facsimile copy of the original printed text, followed by the list of authors and the frequency of terminology.

Author Biography

Julieta María Teresa Consigli

Bachelor's degree and Professor of Classical Literature, and Doctor of Letters. She works as an Adjunct Professor in the departments of Latin Language and Culture I (by competitive examination) and Latin Language and Culture II at the School of Letters of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina). She has taught specialization seminars in Legal Latin and Medieval Latin. Since 2006, she has been Co-Director of the Indian Studies Program at the Center for Advanced Studies (CEA) at the UNC. She has been Deputy Director of the School of Letters for six consecutive years. 
She is a full member of the Argentine Ecclesiastical History Board and a member of the Argentine Association of Classical Studies (A.A.D.E.C.). She has directed and been part of research teams and has presented papers related to her field of study, colonial American Latin, at numerous academic conferences. She has published books, book chapters, and articles in specialized journals. Among these are translations related to Latin documentation of the Bishops of Tucumán, the “Treatise on the Bull of the Crusade. Ladislao Orosz, 1734” and the “Treatise on the Fascination of Diego Álvarez Chanca, 1498,” co-authored. As an author: “Latin quotations in colonial sermons of confession and souls” and “Colonial and postcolonial Latin. Linguistic considerations and the process of resemantization in documents and published texts of the period.”

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Published

March 1, 2014

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-950-33-1056-4