Abstract

SICA, Gabriela. Paper and Memory: Constructing the Processes of Local Identification in the Indian Villages of Jujuy in the 17th century. Andes [online]. 2008, n.19, pp.327-344. ISSN 1668-8090.

This study delves into the construction of local identities in Indian villages around San Salvador de Jujuy (Gobernación del Tucumán) in the seventeenth century. The caciques and other ethnic authorities in the Indian villages participated actively in actions aiming at the community survival and the protection of communal landownership. Ownership of communal lands was at the center of their economy as well as social reproduction. To guarantee the continuity of communal landownership caciques appealed to the use of written documents and possession rituals that permitted  legitimation in colonial times, as well as to memory and oral tradition.

Keywords : Identity; Ethnic Authorities; Ritual; Oral Tradition.

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