El comercio de la coca y las mujeres indias en Potosi del s. XVI

Authors

  • Paulina Numhauser Bar-Magen Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas; Depto. de História

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i138p27-43

Keywords:

Indian women, coca, Potosí s. XVI

Abstract

The study of the notarial documents of Potosí at the XVI's century, reveals the presence of independent indian women who monopolized the profitable retail trade of coca. These documents demonstrate how these women had the capacity of acumulating goods as well as the possibility of investing them. We ask whether this phenomenon that astonished the contemporaries was a consequence of the vital requeriments of the mining site or was due to the pre-hispanic social structure sheltered by the particular privileges of the place?

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1998-06-30

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BAR-MAGEN, Paulina Numhauser. El comercio de la coca y las mujeres indias en Potosi del s. XVI . Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 138, p. 27–43, 1998. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.v0i138p27-43. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/18841.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.