Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This article aims to assess the so-called “legacy” of the 2014 fifa World Cup in Brazil through an analysis of the period following this event. It examines the relationship between the new arenas and the fans, particularly those known as the torcidas organizadas. It opens by describing the architectonic and infrastructural transformations that were carried out for the World Cup, reviews the literature on how fans have used and occupied these new stadiums and concludes with a survey of fans in São Paulo in the wake of the World Cup. This survey allows for the identification of the positive and negative aspects of the new athletic facilities as mentioned by their users, distinguishing between the modernization of stadiums to meet fifa standards and their a posteriori uses, particularly the so-called celebrations in the stands –banners, flags, songs and dances– during state and national championships. Through “clubism” in soccer –a way of supporting a club that differs from the way in which one supports the national team– the article concludes with the heterogeneous, differing perspectives of the members of the torcidas organizadas.

The primary objective of this article is to contribute to the understanding of the sociodemographic, political and productive dynamics that fostered the struggle for the control of space among Indigenous settlements in the old district of Natividad Chinantla in Oaxaca at the end of the colonial era. It casts a critical gaze on anthropological and historical interpretations that ground ethnicity within the limits of territorial continuity, ignoring both the depopulation caused by the Conquest in Mesoamerica as well as the prolonged confrontations between Indigenous populations to encompass geographical areas through complex strategies that included alliances with different agents of the dominant colonial society. Based on the information available on the region and a review of agrarian and historical documents held by parishes and municipalities in the area under study, it seeks to sketch a map of the pattern of settlement and forms of access to land that prevailed at the end of the seventeenth century and beginning of the eighteenth in the province of Valle Nacional. This shows that, far from there being a historical continuity with the pre-Hispanic past, the Chinantec region registers a fluctuating dynamic, oscillating between expansion and territorial fragmentation.

In 1897, Wistano Luis Orozco, a lawyer specializing in agrarian law, published the pamphlet Las Aguas Subterráneas in San Luis Potosi. A manual for locating springs, it was inspired by an 1856 treatise from France, written by Abbé Paramelle. This article explores the circulation of knowledge and its adaptation to local contexts through an analysis of the reading and critical reception of the French text in Spain and Mexico, taking Orozco’s pamphlet as representative of the scientific-intellectual world of Mexican professionals in the late nineteenth century. Besides texts on geology and hydrogeology in Spanish, English and French, this article also makes use of contemporary periodicals as primary sources.

This article attributes to Vasco de Quiroga an anonymous Spanish translation of Thomas More’s Utopia, the sole copy of which is held by the Royal Library of Madrid. In the final pages of his Información en derecho (1535), Vasco mentions that he translated Utopia but, as it is not found alongside the manuscript that contains Información en derecho, held by the National Library of Spain, it has been considered lost until now. The translation of Utopia held by the Royal Library, despite being the first complete Spanish edition of this work, has been almost completely ignored by critics. There is no doubt that it was written in the time of Charles V and, as shall be shown herein, that it was the work of Vasco de Quiroga, who had sent it to Juan Bernal Díaz de Luco so that the Council of the Indies would better understand the functioning of the hospital-towns that he had founded in Santa Fe de México (1532) and Santa Fe de la Laguna (1533), which were inspired by Thomas More’s Utopia.

The objective of this article is to explore the process of adopting the practice of soccer. It is based on an analysis of the sports section of the newspaper La Argentina, as well as data from the so-called traditional history of Argentinean soccer, which reflect the first—sometimes informal—steps taken by certain clubs, centered on the names they were given by their young founders. The analysis of these expressions and decisions will allow for a clearer vision of the ideas and affects that mobilized these soccer players and could constitute a path to testing a world that is difficult to assimilate by simply looking backward. This analysis provides clues to the identitarian scenarios that drew them together and the mental and emotional states of the capital’s youth, a tone which seems to have survived in the soccer world until the present day in an ebb and flow, and even in backwaters that resist change.

In Mesoamerica, during the Late Postclassic, most Indigenous people were subject to a “lord,” or tlahtoque. Together, they constituted a political unit, known as an altepetl, in which all members were connected through historic ties and collective interests, which allowed for the survival and reproduction of their social and economic system. The objective of this article is to examine the logic that Hernán Cortés followed when petitioning the king for encomiendas through the identification of pre-existing Indigenous lords and some of the major pre-Hispanic economic and residential centers. At the same time, it emphasizes the fact that these Indigenous settlements were based around the tlathoque-altepetl relationship, which allowed for the creation of the system of indirect domination on which New Spain was built.

This article, largely based on sources from the General Archive of the Indies, aims to situate the Spanish Crown’s sixteenth century expeditions to the Spice Islands in a timeline that begins with Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world (1519-1522) and ends with Legazpi’s voyage to the Philippines (1564). This is complemented with an analysis of the financing of spice expeditions, concluding with the low profitability of these voyages, whether publicly or privately financed.

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