Abstract

MONTANA MESTIZO, Vladimir. The rural social representations of the "non-Indians" in the face of the decline of the colonial-agrarian city: the Central Andes of Nueva Granada at the bourbon crossroads. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2022, vol.58, n.1, pp.61-87.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.2001.

At the end of the eighteenth century, social repre-sentation processes of the non-indigenous rural population began to be resignified according to whether it came from conglomerate or dis-persed spaces. During the Habsburg period, the fundamental socio-spatial boundary was given by the conquered and the unconquered, and the colonies were urban/rural settlements organized and controlled around more or less conglomerate political-administrative entities. There, one was mestizo, Spanish or Indian regardless of the place of residence. However, the promulgation of the Royal Instruction of 1754, the expansion of the internal frontier, and the physiocratic turn made possible the expansion of this colonial world. This expansion implied the destructuring of the rules of social order and control. In this article I show that, as never before, the fact that someone came from the cities, small villages, or uninhabited areas be-came a factor of otherness among the non-indigenous population (vecinos or neighbors, libres or free-people and mestizosj.

Keywords : libres de todos los colores; vecino (neighbor); mestizo; social representation; country/city.

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