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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes
- Author(s):
- Allison Margaret Bigelow (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Latin American literature, Latin Americans--Social life and customs, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Eighteenth century, Science, History, Indigenous peoples, Law
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Colonial Latin American literature and culture, Gender studies, History of science
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M67N5R
- Abstract:
- Histories of colonial Latin American mining have cemented the image of a scientifically backward society whose pursuit of easy wealth sacrificed the lives of indigenous and African miners in places like Potosí. By examining a mid seventeenth-century mine dispute between an Andean woman and a Spanish man, this article suggests how legal archives can reveal indigenous women’s contributions to the history of colonial silver. It also provides an appendix with one hundred cases of indigenous, creole, and Spanish women miners, refiners, and managers in Alto Perú, 1559–1801, suggesting how women of different socioeconomic and technical backgrounds participated in the silver industry.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-ShareAlike
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