Abstract

LOPEZ, C. The space and the people: the socio-demographical dynamics of the post-colonial Tucumán population. Andes [online]. 2006, n.17, pp.239-264. ISSN 1668-8090.

The historiography of the last decades has made use of data on population in order to interpret socio-economic, historical, and cultural processes. Because of this, dealing with population numbers becomes a reciprocal relationship that explains the transformations as mutually dependent ones. The purpose of this work is to present a "chart" of the population of Tucumán during the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries, along with the findings of some situations still unresolved by the historiography. The aim is to get access to a better comprehension of the population   from these last perspectives. For this purpose, we make a historiographical balance taking into account not only their contribution from the demographic point of view, but also the controversial issue of the sources, the use of semantic categories, and the creation of new analytic tools.

Keywords : Population; Tucumán; Historiography.

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