Abstract

RAMOS, GABRIELA. The Trace of Discrimination. Litigation and Probanzas of Caciques in Early Colonial Peru. Front. hist. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.1, pp.64-88. ISSN 2027-4688.

This article studies ideas and practices surrounding inequality and discrimination in the Andes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Through the analysis of legal disputes over the right to occupy the office of cacique and of requests submitted by caciques to obtain certification for services given to the Spanish, this study demonstrates how indigenous elites, although themselves victims of discrimination, in pursuing their own interests, became agents of discriminatory ideas and practices.

Keywords : Andean; Caciques; discrimination; justice; purity of blood; racism.

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