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«houses» in aymara societies of north potosí under colonial rule: Revisiting the andean segmentary model. repartimiento of macha (audiencia of charcas), 1613-1619

Abstract:

The presence of kingshiped social groups or «houses», into the segmentary model of pre-Hispanic and colonial Aymara societies, achieved a solid consensus in the Andean historiography. From a contextual historical analysis of published and unpublished Macha colonial documentation, and appealing to the model of «sociétés à maisons» of Claude Lévi-Strauss, this article aims to enrich the analysis of Aymara houses as heterogeneous social groups that use and at the same time subvert the language of kinship in order to protect their political interests in a changing colonial context.