LIBERAL LOGICS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF REPUBLICAN HACIENDAS OF YOCALLA AND PUNA IN POTOSÍ, BOLIVIA

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will present the preliminary results of an archaeological investigation, currently in progress, carried out in the ex-haciendas of Yocalla and Puna, in Potosí, Bolivia. Based on archaeological survey, surface material, architectural evidence and historical documentation from the 19th and 20th centuries, it is intended to explore the influence of the liberal logics introduced by the Republican elites in the spatial management of the haciendas. These are located in spaces that were previously subjected to the forces of Potosi’s mining market during the colonial period. The archaeological and historical evidence allows us to identify continuities and transformations in the spatial organization of the haciendas that reflect power relations between landowners and workers. The consequences of these changes are still visible today, 70 years after the dissolution of the hacienda system in 1953.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39645.0