La Economía indígena y el circuito mercantil en la Atacama boliviana de mediados del siglo XIX

Entre la dominación neocolonial y el clientelismo consignatario

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ID3040191
AuthorsH Gundermann (0000-0002-1844-4713), Carlos Maria Chiappe (0000-0002-1760-6004, Universidad Católica del Norte)
Year2023
Volume69
Pagese5653
Publication date2023-10-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudios Atacameños Arqueología y antropología surandinas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0716-0925 • E-ISSN: 0718-1043
PublisherUniversidad Catolica del Norte - Chile (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2023-0017
OpenAlexW4387503465
LanguageES
Citations received3
References cited13

The idea that 19th-century Atacama indigenous people were a muleteering society is prevalent in state administrative sources and observations by the era's foreign travelers. This assertion has tinged, in part, today's portrayals of this member of society from the Atacama's Bolivian period. While national economic activation plans did lead to a boom in muleteering and forage agriculture, this article questions how much of the general population and the indigenous, in particular, got involved in muleteering as a result of the redesign and expansion of cross-border trade circuits. To answer this question, we propose an approach that considers all the economic players, adds new hypotheses and conceptual categories, and draws on unpublished documentary evidence

Political science · Historical Studies in Latin America · Latin American history and culture

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