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Format: XV, 299 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm

ISBN: 0822334178 , 0822334062

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise

Content: Accused heretics -- Inquisition as bureaucracy -- Mysteries of state -- Globalization and guinea pigs -- States and stains -- New Christians and New World fears -- The Inca's witches -- Becoming Indian

Note: "A John Hope Franklin Center book." , Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-292) and index , Accused heretics -- Inquisition as bureaucracy -- Mysteries of state -- Globalization and guinea pigs -- States and stains -- New Christians and New World fears -- The Inca's witches -- Becoming Indian

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Silverblatt, Irene Modern Inquisitions Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 ISBN 0822334178

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Silverblatt, Irene, 1948 - Modern Inquisitions Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 ISBN 9780822386230

Additional Edition: ISBN 0822386232

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Vizekönigreich Peru ; Inquisition ; Kolonialismus ; Bürokratie ; Geschichte 1650-1800

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Silverblatt, Irene 1948-

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Format: Online-Ressource

Edition: eHRAF World Cultures

Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures

Content: The Inka tradition follows the Huari and Tiwanaku periods through the development of the Inka empire to the Spanish conquest and dates to 800-400 B.P. The Incan empire united city states across the Andean region. This collection consists of 23 documents, including important primary sources dating to the period of the Spanish conquest which detail Inka social organization, customs, and religion (Pedro de Cieza de León, Bernabé Cobo, Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, Juan Polo de Ondegardo; selections from Narratives of the rites and laws of the Yncas, including Polo de Ondegardo, Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua and Garcilasso de la Vega). Rowe and Zuidema use the primary sources to examine Inka society. Bauer uses material culture to describe the Cuzco ceque system. Hyslop describes Inkan-built settlements. Murra looks at economic and social organization before the Spanish conquest. Silverblatt compares gender issues from before the Inka empire to after the Spanish conquest; Costin examines the role of women in textile prdocution. D'Altroy examines the interaction between the Inka and the conquered ethnic groups; this and related topics are examined in detail in selections from Inca and Aztec states, 1400-1800 (Pease G.Y., Murra, Wachtel, Rowe, Julien and Morris)

Note: - An account of the antiquities of Peru - by J. de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-Yamqui Salcamayhua - 1873 -- - An account of the fables and rites of the Yncas - by C. de Molina - 1873 -- - The first new chronicle and good government - Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala - 1936 -- - The second part of the Chronicle of Peru - by Pedro de Cieza de León ; translated and edited, with notes and introduction, by Clements R. Markham - 1883 -- - The sacred landscape of the Inca: the Cusco ceque system - Brian S. Bauer - 1998 -- - Provincial power in the Inka empire - Terence N. D'Altroy - 1992 -- - Inka settlement planning - John Hyslop - 1990 -- - The economic organization of the Inka State - by John Victor Murra - 1980 -- - Inca civilization in Cuzco - by R. Tom Zuidema ; translated from the French by Jean-Jacques Decoster ; foreword by Françoise Héritier-Augé - 1990 -- - The formation of Tawantinsuyu: mechanisms of colonization and relationship with ethnic groups - Franklin Pease G. Y. ; translated by Mary G. Berg - 1982 -- , - Inca policies and institutions relating to the cultural unification of the empire - John Howland Rowe - 1982 -- - Inca decimal administration in the Lake Titicaca region - Catherine J. Julien - 1982 -- - The infrastructure of Inka control in the Peruvian central highlands - Craig Morris - 1982 -- - The MIT'A obligations of ethnic groups to the Inka state - John V. Murra - 1982 -- - The MITIMAS of the Cochabamba Valley: the colonization policy of Huayna Capac - Nathan Wachtel ; translated by Elborg Forster - 1982 -- - Moon, sun, and witches: gender ideologies and class in Inca and colonial Peru - Irene Silverblatt - 1987 -- - Textiles, women, and political economy in late prehispanic Peru - Cathy Lynne Costin - 1993 , Culture summary: Inka - Tamara Bray, Sarah Berry (file evaluation and indexing notes) and John Beierle (file evaluation and indexing notes) - 2005 -- - Inca culture at the time of the Spanish conquest - John Howland Rowe - 1946 -- - The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Lóon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru - translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham - 1864 -- - First part of the Royal commentaries of the Yncas - by the Ynca Garcilasso de la Vega. Translated and edited with notes and an introd. by Clements R. Markham - [1963] -- - History of the New World - By Bernabé Cobo - 1893 -- - Information concerning the religion and government of the Incas - Juan Polo de Ondegardo - 1916 -- - Report by Polo de Ondegardo - Juan Polo de Ondegardo - 1873 --

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

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Author information: Vega, Garcilaso de la 1539-1616

Author information: Cieza de León, Pedro de 1518-1554

Author information: Zuidema, Reiner Tom 1927-2016

Author information: Silverblatt, Irene 1948-

Author information: Polo de Ondegardo, Juan 1510-1575

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Format: XXXIII, 266 S. : Ill.

ISBN: 0-691-07726-6 , 0-691-02258-5

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: Geschlechterrolle ; Soziale Stellung ; Indianer ; Geschichte ; Soziale Klasse ; Geschlechterrolle

Author information: Silverblatt, Irene 1948-

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Format: 1 online resource (400 p.)

ISBN: 9780822386612

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. While highlighting patterns of political discourse and practice common to the entire region, these state-of-the-art histories show how national and local political cultures depended on specific constellations of power, gender and racial orders, processes of identity formation, and socioeconomic and institutional structures.The contributors foreground the struggles over democracy and citizens’ rights as well as notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class that have been at the forefront of political debates and social movements in the Andes since the waning days of the colonial regime some two hundred years ago. Among the many topics they consider are the significance of the Bourbon reform era to subsequent state-formation projects, the role of race and nation in the work of early-twentieth-century Bolivian intellectuals, the fiscal decentralization campaign in Peru following the devastating War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century, and the negotiation of the rights of “free men of all colors” in Colombia’s Atlantic coast region during the late colonial period. Political Cultures in the Andes includes an essay by the noted Mexicanist Alan Knight in which he considers the value and limits of the concept of political culture and a response to Knight’s essay by the volume’s editors, Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. This important collection exemplifies the rich potential of a pragmatic political culture approach to deciphering the processes involved in the formation of historical polities.Contributors. Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, Carlos Contreras, Margarita Garrido, Laura Gotkowitz, Aline Helg, Nils Jacobsen, Alan Knight, Brooke Larson, Mary Roldan, Sergio Serulnikov, Charles F. Walker, Derek Williams

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , About the series -- , Acknowledgments -- , The Long and the Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes -- , Is Political Culture Good to Think? -- , How Interests and Values Seldom Come Alone, or: The Utility of a Pragmatic Perspective on Political Culture -- , Part One. State- and Nation-Building Projects and Their Limitations -- , Civilize or Control? The Lingering Impact of the Bourbon Urban Reforms -- , A Break with the Past? Santa Cruz and the Constitution -- , The Tax Man Cometh: Local Authorities and the Battle Over Taxes in Peru, 1885-1906 -- , ‘‘Under the dominion of the indian’’: Rural Mobilization, the Law, and Revolutionary Nationalism in Bolivia in the 1940s -- , Part Two. Ethnicity, Gender, and the Construction of Power: Exclusionary Strategies and the Struggle for Citizenship -- , ‘‘Free Men of All Colors’’ in New Granada: Identity and Obedience before Independence -- , Silencing African Descent: Caribbean Colombia and Early Nation Building, 1810-1828 -- , The Making of Ecuador’s Pueblo Católico, 1861-1875 -- , Redeemed Indians, Barbarized Cholos: Crafting Neocolonial Modernity in Liberal Bolivia, 1900-1910 -- , Part Three. The Local, the Peripheral, and the Network: Redefining the Boundaries of Popular Representation in the Public Arena -- , Andean Political Imagination in the Late Eighteenth Century -- , Public Opinions and Public Spheres in Late-Nineteenth-Century Peru: A Multicolored Web in a Tattered Cloth -- , The Local Limitations to a National Political Movement: Gaitán and Gaitanismo in Antioquia -- , Concluding Remarks: Andean Inflections of Latin American Political Cultures -- , Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822386612

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Format: 1 online resource (444 p.) : , 63 illustrations (22 color-16 pg insert, 41 b&w)

ISBN: 9780822389699

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics joined to promote an international identity for Argentina’s visual arts.The renowned Argentine art historian and critic Andrea Giunta analyzes projects specifically designed to internationalize Argentina’s art and avant-garde during the 1960s: the importation of exhibitions of contemporary international art, the sending of Argentine artists abroad to study, the organization of prize competitions involving prestigious international art critics, and the export of exhibitions of Argentine art to Europe and the United States. She looks at the conditions that made these projects possible—not least the Alliance for Progress, a U.S. program of “exchange” and “cooperation” meant to prevent the spread of communism through Latin America in the wake of the Cuban Revolution—as well as the strategies formulated to promote them. She describes the influence of Romero Brest, prominent art critic, supporter of abstract art, and director of the Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Tocuato Di Tella (an experimental art center in Buenos Aires); various group programs such as Nueva Figuración and Arte Destructivo; and individual artists including Antonio Berni, Alberto Greco, León Ferrari, Marta Minujin, and Luis Felipe Noé. Giunta’s rich narrative illuminates the contentious postwar relationships between art and politics, Latin America and the United States, and local identity and global recognition.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , List of Illustrations -- , About the Series -- , Preface and Acknowledgments -- , Translator’s Note -- , Abbreviations -- , Introduction -- , CHAPTER 1. MODERN ART ON THE MARGINS OF PERONISM -- , Postwar Chronicle -- , The North American Invasion -- , Abstract Artists Between Communists and Liberals -- , The Platforms for the Displaced -- , The Official Policy Toward Art -- , The French Invasion -- , Controversies on Abstract Art -- , Between Peronism and Abstract Art: Coming to Terms -- , Ver y Estimar on the Ramparts of Modern Art -- , CHAPTER 2. Proclamations and Programs During the Revolución Libertadora -- , The Embassies of Art -- , A Revitalized Museum -- , A New Museum for the New Art -- , Boa, Phases, and the International Front of the Avant- Garde -- , Conflicting Internationalisms -- , The Exploration of Materials -- , CHAPTER 3. THE “NEW” ART SCENE -- , Journal of a Collector -- , Coming Out in Society -- , The First International Exhibition -- , The 150th Anniversary Celebrations -- , A Plan for Success -- , CHAPTER 4. THE AVANT-GARDE AS PROBLEM -- , The Material Limits -- , The Art of “Things” -- , An Aesthetic of Violence -- , Argentines in Paris -- , Avant-Garde and Narration -- , The Total Art Object -- , CHAPTER 5. THE DECENTERING OF THE MODERNIST PARADIGM -- , Suspending Judgment and Embracing Novelty -- , Other Genealogies for Modern Art -- , An All-Consuming Aesthetic -- , CHAPTER 6. STRATEGIES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION -- , The American Family -- , International Awards for National Recognition -- , The Circulating MoMA Exhibitions -- , 1964: The Year of Recognition -- , Biennial and Anti-Biennial -- , The Culmination of Internationalism -- , The Aporias of Internationalism -- , CHAPTER 7. THE AVANT-GARDE BETWEEN ART AND POLITICS -- , The Artist as Intellectual -- , A “Plastic” Crime -- , The Politics of Assemblage -- , The Avant-Garde Between the Two Boundaries -- , Art as a Collective and Violent Action -- , Conclusions -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: Art History

Keywords: Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1515/9780822389699

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Format: 1 online resource (280 p.) : , 2 photos, 2 maps

ISBN: 9780822386292

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations ; 1

Content: During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a framework for understanding memory struggles in history.“A thoughtful, nuanced study of how Chileans remember the traumatic 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet against Salvador Allende and the nearly two decades of military government that followed. . . . In light of the recent revelations of American human rights abuses of Iraqi prisoners, [Stern’s] insights into the legacies of torture and abuse in the Chilean prisons of the 1970s certainly have contemporary significance for any society that undergoes a national trauma.”—Publishers Weekly“This outstanding work of scholarship sets a benchmark in the history of state terror, trauma, and memory in Latin America.”—Thomas Miller Klubock, American Historical Review“This is a book of uncommon depth and introspection. . . . Steve J. Stern has not only advanced the memory of the horrors of the military dictatorship; he has assured the place of Pinochet’s legacy of atrocity in our collective conscience.”—Peter Kornbluh, author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability“Steve J. Stern’s book elegantly recounts the conflicted recent history of Chile. He has found a deft solution to the knotty problem of evenhandedness in representing points of view so divergent they defy even the most careful attempts to portray the facts of the Pinochet period. He weaves a tapestry of memory in which narratives of horror and rupture commingle with the sincere perceptions of Chileans who remember Pinochet’s rule as salvation. The facts are there, but more important is the understanding we gain by knowing how ordinary Chileans—Pinochet’s supporters and his victims—work through their unresolved past.”—John Dinges, author of The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , acknowledgments -- , maps -- , Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile -- , Introduction to Book One: Remembering Pinochet’s Chile -- , Chapter 1 -- , Heroic Memory: Ruin into Salvation -- , afterword Childhood Holidays, Childhood Salvation -- , Chapter 2 -- , Dissident Memory: Rupture, Persecution, Awakening -- , afterword The Lore of Goodness and Remorse -- , Chapter 3 -- , Indifferent Memory: Closing the Box on the Past -- , afterword The Accident: Temptations of Silence -- , Chapter 4 -- , From Loose Memory to Emblematic Memory: Knots on the Social Body -- , afterword Memory Tomb of the Unknown Soldier -- , conclusion: Memories and Silences of the Heart -- , abbreviations used in notes and essay on sources -- , notes -- , essay on sources -- , index , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: History

DOI: 10.1515/9780822386292

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Format: 1 online resource (330 p.) : , 24 b&w photos, 1 map

ISBN: 9780822381457

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s social justice movements, and it inspired popular organizing efforts across Latin America. While the insurrection seemed to come out of nowhere, Marc Becker demonstrates that it emerged out of years of organizing and developing strategies to advance Indigenous rights. In this richly documented account, he chronicles a long history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the first local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the galvanizing protests of 1990. In so doing, he reveals the central role of women in Indigenous movements and the history of productive collaborations between rural Indigenous activists and urban leftist intellectuals.Becker explains how rural laborers and urban activists worked together in Ecuador, merging ethnic and class-based struggles for social justice. Socialists were often the first to defend Indigenous languages, cultures, and social organizations. They introduced rural activists to new tactics, including demonstrations and strikes. Drawing on leftist influences, Indigenous peoples became adept at reacting to immediate, local forms of exploitation while at the same time addressing broader underlying structural inequities. Through an examination of strike activity in the 1930s, the establishment of a national-level Ecuadorian Federation of Indians in 1944, and agitation for agrarian reform in the 1960s, Becker shows that the history of Indigenous mobilizations in Ecuador is longer and deeper than many contemporary observers have recognized.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Chronology -- , Acronyms -- , One What Is an Indian? -- , Two Socialism -- , Three Strike! -- , Four Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios -- , Five Guachalá -- , Six Agrarian Reform? -- , Seven Return of the Indian -- , Eight Pachakutik -- , Notes -- , Glossary -- , Biographies -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: Geography , Ethnology

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822381457

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Format: 1 online resource (280 p.) : , 9 b&w photos, 2 maps

ISBN: 9780822386094

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal the tension that exists between identity as a source of equality and identity as an instrument through which social and cultural hierarchies are reinforced. Focusing on the Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, Khan examines this paradox as it is expressed in key dimensions of Hindu and Muslim cultural history and social relationships in southern Trinidad. In vivid detail, she describes how disempowered communities create livable conditions for themselves while participating in a broader culture that both celebrates and denies difference.Khan combines ethnographic research she conducted in Trinidad over the course of a decade with extensive archival research to explore how Hindu and Muslim Indo-Trinidadians interpret authority, generational tensions, and the transformations of Indian culture in the Caribbean through metaphors of mixing. She demonstrates how ambivalence about the desirability of a callaloo nation—a multicultural society—is manifest around practices and issues, including rituals, labor, intermarriage, and class mobility. Khan maintains that metaphors of mixing are pervasive and worth paying attention to: the assumptions and concerns they communicate are key to unraveling who Indo-Trinidadians imagine themselves to be and how identities such as race and religion shape and are shaped by the politics of multiculturalism.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , About the Series -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1 ‘‘This Rainbow Has Teeth’’ -- , 2 A ‘‘Crazyquilt Society’’ -- , 3 Locations and Dislocations -- , 4 The Problem of Simi-Dimi -- , 5 Carving Knowledge from Ways of Knowing -- , 6 ‘‘No Bhakti, Only Gyan’’ -- , 7 ‘‘You Get Honor for Your Knowledge’’ -- , 8 Mixing Metaphors -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology , Sociology

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822386094

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Format: 1 online resource (376 p.)

ISBN: 9780822386308

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated with the postcolonial state and those generated in and through popular culture. Following independence in 1962, cultural and political policies in Jamaica were geared toward the development of a multiracial creole nationalism reflected in the country’s motto: “Out of many, one people.” As Thomas shows, by the late 1990s, creole nationalism was superseded by “modern blackness”—an urban blackness rooted in youth culture and influenced by African American popular culture. Expressions of blackness that had been marginalized in national cultural policy became paramount in contemporary understandings of what it was to be Jamaican.Thomas combines historical research with fieldwork she conducted in Jamaica between 1993 and 2003. Drawing on her research in a rural hillside community just outside Kingston, she looks at how Jamaicans interpreted and reproduced or transformed on the local level nationalist policies and popular ideologies about progress. With detailed descriptions of daily life in Jamaica set against a backdrop of postcolonial nation-building and neoliberal globalization, Modern Blackness is an important examination of the competing identities that mobilize Jamaicans locally and represent them internationally.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction ‘‘Out of Many, One (Black) People’’ -- , PART I The Global-National -- , Chapter 1 The ‘‘Problem’’ of Nationalism in the British West Indies; or, ‘‘What We Are and What We Hope to Be’’ -- , Chapter 2 Political Economies of Culture -- , PART II The National-Local -- , Chapter 3 Strangers and Friends -- , Chapter 4 Institutionalizing (Racialized) Progress -- , Chapter 5 Emancipating the Nation (Again) -- , PART III The Local-Global -- , Chapter 6 Political Economies of Modernity -- , Chapter 7 Modern Blackness; or, Theoretical ‘‘Tripping’’ on Black Vernacular Culture -- , Conclusion The Remix -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822386308

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Format: 1 online resource (296 p.) : , 5 b&w photos, 5 tables, 3 maps

ISBN: 9780822386667

Series Statement: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Content: Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated with the silver trade, Trading Roles emphasizes daily life in the city’s streets, markets, and taverns. As Jane E. Mangan shows, food and drink transactions emerged as the most common site of interaction for Potosinos of different ethnic and class backgrounds. Within two decades of Potosí’s founding in the 1540s, the majority of the city’s inhabitants no longer produced food or alcohol for themselves; they purchased these items. Mangan presents a vibrant social history of colonial Potosí through an investigation of everyday commerce during the city’s economic heyday, between the discovery of silver in 1545 and the waning of production in the late seventeenth century.Drawing on wills and dowries, judicial cases, town council records, and royal decrees, Mangan brings alive the bustle of trade in Potosí. She examines "idian economic transactions in light of social custom, ethnicity, and gender, illuminating negotiations over vendor locations, kinship ties that sustained urban trade through the course of silver booms and busts, and credit practices that developed to mitigate the pressures of the market economy. Mangan argues that trade exchanges functioned as sites to negotiate identities within this colonial multiethnic society. Throughout the study, she demonstrates how women and indigenous peoples played essential roles in Potosí’s economy through the commercial transactions she describes so vividly.

Note: Frontmatter -- , About the Series -- , CONTENTS -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1 ‘‘The Largest Population and the Most Commerce’’: The Genesis of Potosí’s Urban Economy -- , 2 Making Room to Sell: Location, Regulation, and the Properties of Urban Trade -- , 3 Light on the Chicha, Heavy on the Bread: The Colonial Market for Brewing and Baking -- , 4 TheWorld of Credit in the City of Silver -- , 5 EnterprisingWomen: Female Traders in the Urban Economy -- , 6 ¿Vale un Potosí? The Urban Marketplace in the Face of Decline, 1650–1700 -- , Conclusions -- , Appendix -- , Notes -- , Glossary -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.1515/9780822386667

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