ABSTRACT The Canary Islands were conquered from the aboriginal population and colonised in the fifteenth century. This process subjected its inhabitants to the Castilian legal framework, in which evidence of ownership was demanded through documentary proof. Archives, therefore, proliferated in the new territory as a necessity to demonstrate, prove and preserve privileges and patrimony. At the same time, the ‘value’ of archives made them targets for destruction, theft or seizure in situations of social, political, military and family conflict. Moreover, Canary Island archives were affected by natural causes and natural disasters. Within this context, the present paper focuses on the transformations caused by these factors in family archives. The paper aims to explain how, in cases of damage or destruction, families struggled to reconstruct their archives in order to manage and defend their patrimony and family memory. Drawing on different examples, this paper offers empirical evidence on the multicontextualism of these archives. The results demonstrate that several family archives in the Canary Islands are (re)constructions from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Moreover, the archival practices can be framed within a progressive inclusion in the islands of the ‘New Archive Culture’ from mainland Spain.

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近代西班牙早期的档案实践：加那利群岛家庭档案的改造、破坏和（重新）建设

摘要 加那利群岛在 15 世纪被原住民征服并被殖民。这一过程使其居民受到卡斯蒂利亚法律框架的约束，要求通过文件证明提供所有权证据。因此，作为展示、证明和保存特权和遗产的必要条件，档案馆在新领土上激增。同时，档案的“价值”使它们在社会、政治、军事和家庭冲突的情况下成为破坏、盗窃或扣押的目标。此外，加那利岛档案受到自然原因和自然灾害的影响。在此背景下，本文重点研究这些因素对家庭档案造成的转变。该文件旨在解释如何在损坏或毁坏的情况下，家庭努力重建他们的档案，以管理和捍卫他们的遗产和家庭记忆。本文利用不同的例子，为这些档案的多语境主义提供了经验证据。结果表明，加那利群岛的几个家庭档案馆是 17 和 18 世纪的（重新）建造的。此外，档案实践可以逐渐融入西班牙大陆的“新档案文化”岛屿。