Martin RamosUniversity of Quintana Roo | UQROO · Humanities
Martin Ramos
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I do research on the cultural history of the Mexican Caribbean. I focus my attention on the literary and educational history of the Caribbean border of Mexico
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February 1992 - present
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An agrarian file from more than a century ago, apparently unimportant, allows us to reconstruct the business career of a young British military man on the Island of Cozumel, shortly after the creation of the Federal Territory of Quintana Roo (1902). The following a article proposes an in-depth analysis with a magnifying glass the business past of t...
The initial purpose of this research was to develop a catalog of printed schoolbooks in the Yucatan Peninsula during the 19th century. Frequent links between the local literate elite and the dynamic activity of printing and reprinting schoolbooks in the region appeared in the process of detailed book registration. The regional catalog of nineteenth...
p>La historia de los topónimos en la costa Yucatán-Belice es una investigación por hacerse. Los datos cartográficos, etnográficos y lingüísticos aportados por distintas fuentes históricas son un primer censo de la variación toponímica en el área. Desconocemos la toponimia amerindia de docenas de islotes y cayos vecinos al arrecife mesoamericano. De...
The history of toponymy of the Yucatan-Belize coast is an investigation to be done. The cartographic, ethnographic and linguistic data provided by different historical sources account for the earlier records of the toponymy variation of the area. The Amerindian names of dozens of islets and cays neighboring the Mesoamerican Reef remain unknown. The...
The following pages recover a five-year period of modern educational history in the state of Quintana Roo. The years 1975-1980 were defining for education in the Mexico-Belize border – for the first
time there were legal and financial resources to establish schools in all regions at all educational levels, from preschool to university. The developm...
The following article explores the transfer of ancient and medieval narratives of herbolaria, hermetica and hagiography to Yucatecan texts of the 17th and 18th centuries. The identification of books printed in the 16th century that circulated in Mayan geography — derived from the old world — allows to check in the texts written in the southeast of...
Este artículo explora el traslado de narrativas antiguas y medievales de herbolaria, hermética y hagiografía a textos yucatecos de los siglos xvii y xviii. La identificación de libros impresos en el siglo xvi que circularon en la geografía maya —procedentes del viejo mundo— permite cotejar en los textos escritos en el sureste de la Nueva España la...
Ignacio Bravo's family correspondence reveals littleknown aspects of the early years of Quintana Roo, certain episodes of the Mexican Revolution and President Victoriano Huerta's exile in Texas. Above all, General Bravo's personal letters trace the lives of a family of military men in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Mexico of Porfirio...
Ignacio Bravo's family correspondence reveals little-known aspects of the early years of Quintana Roo, certain episodes of the Mexican Revolution and President Victoriano Huerta's exile in Texas. Above all, General Bravo's personal letters trace the lives of a family of military men in the late 19th and early 20th century in the Mexico of Porfirio...
The authors of this article give an explanation of how Cozumel became a touristic cruisers place from the reconstruction of the modern economy history in the island. It was necessary more than a century and a half to transform the town founded in that island, San Miguel de Cozumel (1848), into a cosmopolitan city and the most important touristic cr...
The authors of this article give an explanation of how Cozumel became a touristic cruisers place from the reconstruction of the modern economy history in the island. It was necessary more than a century and a half to transform the town founded in that island, San Miguel de Cozumel (1848), into a cosmopolitan city and the most important touristic cr...
La convicción de los franciscanos en Yucatán de poder erradicar la idolatría a través de la educación condujo a fundar un importante número de escuelas elementales en los conventos de la provincia. La tozudez de los religiosos dio como resultado una generación de indios mayas políglotas, que lo mismo leían en latín, hablaban castellano y escribían...
LOS LIBROS DESCRITOS EN UN MEMORIAL DE 1586, REDACTADO POR EL COMISARIO DEL SANTO OFICIO EN MÉRIDA, SON TEMA DE ANÁLISIS EN EL SIGUIENTE ARTÍCULO TRATADOS DE MEDICINA Y GRAMÁTICA, COMPENDIOS MÍSTICOS Y TOMOS DE TEOLOGÍA, LAS INFALTABLES BIBLIAS DE LA MAS DIVERSA PROCEDENCIA, LOS ABUNDANTES LIBROS DE DEVOCIÓN, Y DESDE LUEGO, LOS NECESARIOS MANUALES...
p>El artículo recupera algunos de los libros que transitaron por Yucatán en la época de los primeros encuentros entre españoles y mayas. La lectura de libros europeos por parte de indígenas, familiarizados con la escritura de los conquistadores, no sorprende; lo que llama la atención es la continuidad con que lo hicieron. Con similar curiosidad, lo...
This article examines some of the books that circulated in Yucatan during the time of the
earliest encounters between Spaniards and Mayas. The reading of European books by indigenous people, who were familiar with the writing of conquistadors, is not surprising; what is striking is the continuity with which they did so. Another curious fact is that...
Juan de Herrera, the Franciscan religious brought to Yucatán to educate Mayan children, is the typical case of the educator who arrives at the New Spain to transfer to the indigenous world the forms of instruction born in Europe. Teaching principles and methods of teaching in which they were trained were reproduced in the schools located in Yucatán...
The books described in a 1586 account wri tten by the commissar of the Inquisition are the subjet of analysis in this paper. Medicine and grammar treaties, mystical synopsis and theology volumes, the inevitable Bibles of the most diverse origins, abundant devotional books, and, of course, the necessary manuals for cultivation, breeding of animals a...
Far form being an homogeneous group, The Mayas from Quintana Roo distributed in a diversity of villages which geographical situation influenced their belligerent or their submission to wards the Mexican state. The diferences found in these Mayan villages early this century, soon after Porfirio Diaz troops pacified the region, reflected the hard rel...
El presente libro tiene como propósito esencial analizar uno de los espacios históricamente vitales de la vida social, el vinculado con los aspectos culturales del pasado quintanarroense, el que se refiere a la creación literaria, a la reflexión y, ante todo, a la actividad educativa institucional. En la búsqueda por encontrar y reconstruir las hue...
Repobladas a mediados del siglo XIX, las islas de Holbox, Mujeres y Cozumel, que se localizan frente a las costas del estado mexicano de Quintana Roo, atrajeron pescadores y agricultores que habilitaron puertos, fomentaron ranchos y propiciaron pueblos permanentemente habitados. Con el respaldo de originales fuentes de archivo conservadas por la Se...
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