| FA-55633-11 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Joanne Rappaport | The Meaning of Mestizaje in the Early Colonial New Kingdom of Granada | 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011 | $50,400.00 | Joanne | | Rappaport | | | | Georgetown University | Washington | DC | 20057-0001 | USA | 2010 | Anthropology | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
I propose to inquire into the nature of the early colonial ethnoracial hierarchy in the New Kingdom of Granada (today Colombia). A highly fluid system in which individuals could move from one status to another, I will inquire into what, precisely, classificatory fluidity involved in the first two centuries of colonial rule in the Bogota-Tunja area, looking at the constraints on mobility: gender, location, social status. Studies of this hierarchy have been dominated by research on the caste system in Mexico; by looking at a region whose ethnoracial hierarchy was not defined by caste I hope to elucidate the variation that existed across colonial Latin America. |