Abstract

QUIROGA, Laura; HOPKINS CARDOZO, Miguel Nicolás  and  ALVARADO, Ana Emilse. Pulares: between the war and the encomienda in the high lands of the colonial Tucumán, Viceroyalty of Peru (1577-1630). Andes [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 1668-8090.

The historiography of Tucumán undertakes the study of the Pulares based on the assumption that the alliance with the colonial rule is the result of continuity in the strategy of its leaders against larger political organizations such as the Tawantinsuyu. Through information coming from the acts of possession of encomiendas, letters of governors and probanzas of merits and services in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, complemented with lingÁ¼istic analysis of indigenous names and geographical references, we propose to reconstruct the power of resistance of the so called Pulares in the colonial historical sources. The documentation analyzed allows us to reconstruct their territorial networks and authorities in the ambivalent context of Indians engaged in war and Indians of encomienda. As a result, we consider that the territoriality of the Pulares goes beyond the northern area of valleys and mountainsto establish a network related to the area around the Puna in its whole. We consider that the border attributed to a cultural Pular area is the result of a number of alliances and visible networks that are reflected in war accounts, as well as in the organization of encomiendas, the groups that integrate them and their authorities.

Keywords : Pulares; Encomienda; Rebellious networks; Alliances; Territoriality.

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