The Hispanic-Mapuche Parlamentos: Interethnic Geo-Politics and Concessionary Spaces in Colonial America

Part I: Introduction.- CHAPTER 1: Origin of Parlamentos.- CHAPTER 2: Parlamentos 1593.- CHAPTER 3: Luis de Valdivia and Parlamentos.- CHAPTER 4: Parlamentos of the Eighteenth Century.- CHAPTER 5: The Late Colonial Parlamentos.- Part 2: Archaeology and Geography of Parlamentos.- CHAPTER 6: Problems of Research.- CHAPTER 7: Survey of Sites: Topography and Location.- CHAPTER 8: Description of the Excavated Sites and Artifacts.- Part 3: Language, Speech, and Mediation in the Parlamento.- CHAPTER 9: The name and the concept of "parlamento".- CHAPTER 10: Textual and Discursive Aspects of Parlamentos.- CHAPTER 11: Conclusions.

José Manuel Zavala, PhD in anthropology from the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, has specialized in the study of the relations between colonial societies and indigenous peoples, in particular the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina. His works on the Hispano-Mapuche parliaments, developed in collaboration with the co-authors of this work, have reconsidered a way of understanding the colonial dynamics and the insertion of the indigenous societies in these. He is a member of the Department of Historical Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile. He also has been professor-researcher of the Catholic University of Temuco and visiting professor of the Universities of Paris III and Rennes II, and is a member of international research teams in Chile, Spain and the United States.



Gertrudis Payàs is a professional translator and interpreter, trained at the University of Geneva and at Westminster (ex Polytechnic of Central London)University. She holds a Ph. D. in Translation Studies from the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral dissertation, published in 2010 (Iberoamericana Vervuert), on colonial translation history in New Spain, has been followed by a series of publications dealing with the role of translation and linguistic mediation in the Araucanian context. She teaches at the Universidad Católica de Temuco and is a member of the Interethnic and Intercultural Research Group (NEII) at this university as well as of the Alfaqueque Research Group at the University of Salamanca, in Spain. 




Tom D. Dillehay is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Profesor Titular de la Escuela de Arqueología de la Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt, and Adjunct Professor at several other universities in Latin America. He has