Search Results for kuraka

... to refer to the jurisdiction of a kuraka who, together with his Indian subjects, has been assigned in encomienda to a Spaniard. 16 Cazalla, Huánuco, Libro VI, f. 94v. 17 The following discussion of contracts between the kuraka and a Spaniard for the manufacture of cloth is based upon...

...David Garrett Los Kurakas: Una bibliografía anotada (1609 – 2005) de fuentes impresas sobre los señores andinos en Perú y Alto Perú entre 1533 y 1825 . By Tarragó Rafael E. . Documentos Tavera, 21 . Madrid : Fundación Histórica Tavera / Instituto de Cultura Fundación MAPFRE , 2006...

... web of reciprocities among “kinfolk,” which mobilized labor and circulated goods in Andean ethnic “families,” and unable to reorganize the native economy or control directly the basic elements of production, the colonials had little choice but to rely upon their alliance with the kurakas . Even...

... Michaels (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1981), 41. 107 For earlier litigations, see Indians of Moscari, Chayanta Province, against their kuraka, Florencio Lupa, 1769, Archivo Nacional de Bolivia (ANB), Tierras e Indios (TI), 1773, 34; Indians from Aymaya, Chayanta, against their priest...

... who witnessed encroachments on their village lands and herds? In fact, the author assesses the magnitude and intensity of local change largely on the basis of only three documents, and his main index of acculturation turns out to be the behavior and status of kurakas . Two 1558 visitas reveal...

... uncertain indicators of legal race. Spanish administrators complained that if an Indian cut his hair, spoke Spanish, and donned Spanish clothing, he could not be distinguished as Indian. 6 A special group in pre-Conquest Indian society were the kurakas, or ethnic chieftains, who ranged from...

... to the potters, weavers, and farmers in ecologically varied zones whose labor service to kurakas and Inkas produced the redistributable goods. Although in most cases Pease’s arguments are convincing and his interpretations plausible, some scholars are certain to take issue with the sweeping nature of Pease’s...

... the emphasis on continuity overstated and unconvincing. Rasnake himself concedes that the Yura group emerged out of the colonial disintegration of the larger Wisjisa group, and that differentiation of power, wealth, and interest within the colonial Yura group led to a crisis of high-level kuraka authority...

... postcontact period. These actors include intermediaries such as kurakas (lords or leaders of Andean villages or ethnic groups), interpreters, and women as well as African conquistadores and slaves. 15 These studies lay bare the problem with traditional, linear narratives of conquest: they naturally crowd...

... with unconquered Indians or in cities (which needed their labor for other purposes) were spared. Toledo held the corregidors of the sixteen obligated provinces responsible for sending the required number of mitayos (“Indians serving in the mita”) to Potosí. A kuraka (“Indian noble”) was to be chosen by each...

... rather than rebellion. Moreover, by evoking such images on behalf of kurakas , they legitimate the claims of these indigenous leaders to be the authentic representatives of their own communities to Hispanic colonial overlords. Adorno’s own remarkable essay on “indios ladinos” characterizes...

... communities under Francisco de Toledo. The authors analyze the resettlement of the native population into nucleated towns or reducciones , the regulations establishing the political organization of the new settlements, the incorporation of the traditional Andean elites or kurakas into the colonial system...

... Sempat Assadourian, and others, González Casasnovas presents an excellent synthesis of the structural problems that undermined the provinces’ ability to fill their mita quotas. The mita uprooted and dislocated the indigenous population at the same time powerful interest groups, such as kurakas...

... in 1993, and her recent publications include “Nuns, Kurakas, and Credit: The Spiritual Economy of Seventeenth-Century Cuzco” ( Colonial Latin American Review 6, 1997). Her book, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru , is forthcoming from Duke University Press in spring 1999...

... entertaining, he is no mere curiosity, but rather one of a series of Hapsburg-period entrepreneurs, including many kurakas and caciques. He is unusual in that he succeeded when Potosí was in marked decline, and, moreover, through unconventional means. While mining seems to have produced many entrepreneurs...

... accommodated new European systems. Steve Stern, Nancy Farriss, and Robert Padden introduce the theme that organizes the volume: the resilience of Indian cultures under European domination. In the Andes, Indian kurakas leading ethnic communities helped create and modify the colonial order. In the Maya...

... this local self-rule as an institution in rapid decline. 13 Historians of the colonial Andes have catalogued the ways in which Spanish rule, or at least the conditions set in motion by Spanish conquest, reined in the local kuraka . Karen Spalding memorably critiqued kurakas as “middlemen,” caught...

....” 4. For a discussion of the complexities of calidad, see Andrews, “ Calidad ,” 143. 5. O'Phelan Godoy, Kurakas sin sucesiones , 28. 6. To understand the context of imperial crisis in the Spanish empire, see Guerra, Modernidad e independencias ; Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution...

..., where he reinvented himself as a descendant of the Inca who would lead the unsubdued Calchaquí Indians to freedom from their colonial Spanish oppressors. He was finally executed after allegedly fomenting the 1666 rebellion of the kurakas while imprisoned in Lima. Though he is little known today...

... of cultures that took place during the first few generations of colonial administration. Certainly, Blas Valera’s ability in quichua enabled him to approach native sources, and certainly a kuraka like Pachacuti was in a position to transcribe (translating all the while) the quipu -guided oral history...