Double domicile: Social relationships and ecological complementarity in northern potosí (Bolivia) in the early seventeenth century

Abstract:

Numerous historical, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical researchers have reported on the diversity of ecological complementarity mechanisms and interzone articulations developed by Andean societies over space and time to achieve social reproduction. In this context, the concept of double domicile as a historical category is explored, based on the analysis of the simultaneous control of complementary ecological zones in the Macha repartimiento (Northern Potosí), in the early Seventeenth Century. From the analysis of unpublished surveys padrones de revisita (administrative community accounts), the material conditions that enabled ecological complementarity are evaluated. Investigations focused on questions about the domestic and supra-domestic production structure, the links between highlands and valleys, and the mechanisms of land tenure, which made possible subsistence production and allowed for a surplus that was sold at the Potosí market.

Año de publicación:

2013

Keywords:

• Verticality
• Audiencia of charcas
• Double domicile
• Andes
• Domestic unit

Fuente:

scopus