LOS «EXPERTOS» DE LA CORONA. PODER COLONIAL Y SABER LOCAL EN EL ALTO PERÚ DE LOS SIGLOS XVI Y XVII

Abstract

Through the analysis of treatrises, manuals, reports and others papers writen in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries the purpose of this paper is to think about the social category of expert in colonial mining in Peru and in particularly in Potosi and to think about the relation between these specialists and the power of the Spanish Crown. Four ideas hold this paper: the relation between local knowledge and colonial power, the role play by these experts as passeurs and as people establishing connections between Peru and the rest of the world, the mechanisms and forms of native knowledge collection by the experts and finally the European reception of these specialists and experimented\nmen texts.

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