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Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosi was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated with the silver trade, Trading Roles emphasizes daily life in the city's streets, markets, and taverns. As Jane E. Mangan shows, food and drink transactions emerged as the most common site of interaction for Potosinos of different ethnic and class backgrounds. Within two decades of Potosi's founding in the 1540s, the majority of the city's inhabitants no longer produced food or alcohol for themselves; they purchased these items. Mangan presents a vibrant social history of colonial Potosi through an investigation of everyday commerce during the city's economic heyday, between the discovery of silver in 1545 and the waning of production in the late seventeenth century.Drawing on wills and dowries, judicial cases, town council records, and royal decrees, Mangan brings alive the bustle of trade in Potosi. She examines quotidian economic transactions in light of social custom, ethnicity, and gender, illuminating negotiations over vendor locations, kinship ties that sustained urban trade through the course of silver booms and busts, and credit practices that developed to mitigate the pressures of the market economy. Mangan argues that trade exchanges functioned as sites to negotiate identities within this colonial multiethnic society. Throughout the study, she demonstrates how women and indigenous peoples played essential roles in Potosi's economy through the commercial transactions she describes so vividly.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	17 mai 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822386667
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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A book in the series

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Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

Irene Silverblatt, Duke University

Sonia Saldívar-Hull, University of Texas at San Antonio

a o TDINGLES Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in

Colonial Potosí

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A B O U T T H E S E R I E S

Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to deﬁne ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad inter-play of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing imperial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geo-political entity since the nineteenth century. This series provides a start-ing point to redeﬁne Latin America as a conﬁguration of political, lin-guistic, cultural, and economic intersections that demands a continuous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongoing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America’s experience.Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a forum that confronts established geocul-tural constructions, that rethinks area studies and disciplinary boundaries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. We know much about Potosí’s silver mines and their role in sustain-ing Spanish colonialism. We know surprisingly little, however, about the social matrix of production, trade, and consumption generated by seven-teenth-century mining; we know little, in other words, about the quo-tidian practices of early capitalism in the Americas. Jane Mangan’s ex-traordinary study provides us with the ethnographic vision we have long needed. Spaniards, Indians, and Blacks, no longer producing their own subsis-tence, were forced to enter Potosí’s expanding market economy. Mangan highlights the participation of women—especially women of indigenous descent—as well as the activities of other non-elites in this process. By focusing on the gendered and racial dimensions of economic practices, Mangan analyzes how mercantilism became a vehicle for the formation of social identities. By analytically divorcing the economy from its so-cial fabric, her book makes us see what has been lost.Trading Rolesis a

ﬁne-grained history of the social relations forging early capitalism and the modern world, relations that would irrevocably aﬀect the lives of peoples in the Andes and throughout the globe.

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About the Series vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction  ‘‘The Largest Population and the Most Commerce’’: The Genesis of Potosí’s Urban Economy  Making Room to Sell: Location, Regulation, and the Properties of Urban Trade  Light on the Chicha, Heavy on the Bread: The Colonial Market for Brewing and Baking  The World of Credit in the City of Silver  Enterprising Women: Female Traders in the Urban Economy  ¿Vale un Potosí? The Urban Marketplace in the Face of Decline, –  Conclusions  Appendix  Notes  Glossary  Bibliography  Index 

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