Indigenous migrants negotiating belonging

Peticiones de cambio de fuero in Cajamarca, Peru, 17th–18th centuries

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ID7523005
AuthorsSarah Albiez-Wieck (0000-0002-0865-2025, University of Cologne, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume26
Issue4
Pages483-508
Publication date2017-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueColonial Latin American Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1060-9164 • E-ISSN: 1466-1802
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10609164.2017.1402233
OpenAlexW2789613174
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited28

Prehispanic corporate social units in northern Peru, the pachacas or ayllus and the guarangas, continued to structure social life in Cajamarca throughout the Spanish colonial period. They were restructured by Spanish rule, as they had been by the Inca conquest before. Spanish rule also reshaped indigenous migration and the social categorization of the migrants, which was closely intertwined with the regime of land tenure. This article takes a look at the integration of new and old migrants and their descendants into the local social structure and examines how they negotiated their belonging in petitions to change or defend their fuero. The petitioners successfully argued on the basis of their ancestry, whether legitimate or not, and activated personal networks on their behalf. In that, they paralleled mestizo and mulatto petitioners who, like migrants, benefited from fiscal prerogatives, which were however challenged during the course of the 18th century, leading to a partial re-categorization. The redistribution of land was an important motive in these late colonial re-categorizations, but also earlier in the colonial period the absence of bonds to the land was an essential characteristic of being categorized as a ‘migrant

Art · Biology · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Indigenous · Negotiation · Political science · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics · Ecology

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