Reducciones and Struggles for Land. Emergence of the pueblos de indios of Huamanga (Viceroyalty of Peru, Sixteenth Century); [Reduções e lutas pela terra. Surgimento dos pueblos indígenas de Huamanga (Vice-Reino do Peru, século XVI)]

Chaico D.Q. · Trashumante (2023) · DOI: 10.17533/udea.trahs.n22a03

Resumen

This research analyzes the process of the reducciones in Huamanga, the response of the indigenous people and the problems it generated. Through unpublished documents, we propose that the reducciones were a flexible and complex process that did not only consist of population transfers. On the contrary, they had a capacity for negotiation and caused atypical cases: the indigenous people of Manchiri remained in their pre-hispanic village, those of Lucanamarca returned to their old town and the Lucanas of Carapo, upon leaving the first reducción, returned to their old lands and founded a new pueblo. Likewise, with the reductions, the indigenous people obtained communal lands and had the capacity to defend themselves in prolonged litigation.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga