Abstract

PENA VICENTENO, Juan Pablo. Relations between africans and indigenous peoples in Chiapas and Guatemala. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2009, vol.34, pp.167-180. ISSN 0185-2574.

The presence of African population at the "Audiencia" of Guatemala between 16th and 17th centuries has been vaguely studied by historians and other social scientists. This paper emphasizes on several ways -as slave trade licenses and 'asientos'- that were used by the Spanish Crown for slave trade and transportation. In addition, this article analyses the integration of African slaves and their descendents in Colonial Mexican society, especially their mixture with indigenous population. In Colonial records, as marriages and baptisms files, it is possibly to regard a profound influence on inter-cultural processes between African people and the rest of the Colonial casts. As an example, the musical instrument 'marimba' that brought cultural identity to Guatemala 'Audiencia'. Finally, in this article we will analyze the indigenous literature of the last decade of the 20th century, in which is clear the evidence of "negro" agents in indigenous cosmology.

Keywords : African slaves; Inter-cultural relations; Atlantic slave trade; "Audiencia" of Guatemala; 'marimba'.

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