HIST 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lake Titicaca, Calpulli, Ayllu
25 Oct 2016
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Week 6 (part ii): first nations people of spanish america: indigenous. More competition within kin groups for success and wealth. There is more of an idea of nobility that were related with ownership of land and commoners who worked the land. Worked the land as personal servants (yanaconas- andes, naborias- mexico, forasteros) in order to fit into colonial society. They were generally men who would become servants either of spaniards or of caciques/indigenous governors. Men would run from their kin to start new lives and need jobs. Caciques would get involved in municipal governments to become wealthier (by acquiring laborers and land) and power that regulated land/water usage/disputes. Therefore there is a power at the local level and corporate nature of colonial society meant that indigenous could get involved in litigation as a collective. Had new ideas of space and spatial relationships because depopulation meant that people were moved to another area and different deities were "assigned" to different locations.
