Abstract

JURADO, María Carolina. Land, status and widowhood: tension and variability in rural indigenous households. Repartimiento of Macha (Charcas) in seventeenth century. Andes [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1668-8090.

Focusing on the seventeenth century northern Potosi, this paper examines the tensions between the domestic and supra-domestic spheres related to land access in order to underline the dynamism and variability of indigenous households and the ways in which the conflict between them and the collective spheres was solved or persisted. In order to do this, it analyzes qualitative and quantitative unpublished documents of the repartimiento of Macha, Province of Chayanta (Charcas), from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which show the territorial rearrangement within the Andean repartimientos after the first process of inspection and land composition (1591-1597). In this sense, it is proposed that the differentiated distribution of land among indigenous households according to their fiscal categories as well as the discouragement of their collective administration initiated a process of domestic and lineage appropriation of common resources, within a context of surplus production and its commercialization in the nearby market of Potosí.

Keywords : Household; Widows; Yanacona; Forastero; Viceroyalty of Perú.

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