Jorge Augusto Gamboa Mendoza (born 27 January 1970) is a Colombian

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and

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.Curriculum Vitae Jorge Gamboa Mendoza
/ref> He has been contributing on the knowledge of hispanic and pre-hispanic territories of what is now Colombia, especially the

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Jorge Gamboa speaks

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and French.

Biography

Jorge Gamboa Mendoza was born in Pamplona in the northern

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of Norte de Santander. He studied

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as an undergraduate at the

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from 1988 to 1993 and history from 1993 to 2002 at the same university, graduating with a thesis called ''El Significado de la dote dentro de las prácticas matrimoniales de la sociedad colonial: El caso de la Provincia de Pamplona de la Nueva Granada a finales del siglo XVI'' ("The significance of the dowry within the matrimonial practices of the colonial society: The case of the Pamplona Province of the New Kingdom of Granada at the end of the 16th century"). Since 2001 Jorge Gamboa Mendoza is a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) in Bogotá.

Works

This list is a selection.

Books

* 2010 - ''Fray Bernardo de Lugo. Gramática en la lengua general del Nuevo Reino, llamada Mosca

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' * 2010 - ''El cacicazgo muisca en los años posteriores a la Conquista : del sihipkua al cacique colonial, 1537-1575 '' * 2010 - ''La dote matrimonial a finales del siglo XVI : el caso de la provincia de Pamplon aen el Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1574-1630'' * 2003 - ''El precio de un marido. El significado de la dote matrimonial en el Nuevo Reino de Granada. Pamplona (1570-1650)'' * 2002 - ''Encomienda, identidad y poder. Los encomenderos y conquistadores del Nuevo Reino de Granada vistos a través de las probanzas de méritos y servicios (1550-1650)''

Articles

* 2006 - ''Caciques, encomenderos y santuarios en el Nuevo Reino de Granada: reflexiones metodológicas sobre la ficción en los archivos: el caso del cacique de Tota, 1574-1575'' * 2004 - ''La encomienda y las sociedades indígenas del Nuevo Reino de Granada: el caso de la provincia de Pamplona (1549-1650)'' * 1998 - ''El régimen de la encomienda en una zona minera de la Nueva Granada, 1549 - 1620'' * 1997 - ''La dote matrimonial a finales del siglo XVI. El caso de la Provincia de Pamplona en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1574-1630'' * 1993 - ''Cabildo y Elites Locales en la Sociedad Colonial: Encomenderos, mineros y comerciantes en la Provincia de Pamplona (1600-1660)''

Notable works by Gamboa Mendoza

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References

External links

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Website Jorge Gamboa Mendoza
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