Comunidad indígena y gamonalismo: crisis del régimen hacendatario en Chimborazo (1950-1990)

Esteban López Andrade

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73075

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Indigenous community and gamonalism: the crisis of the hacienda regime in Chimborazo (1950-1990)

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Esteban López Andrade FLACSO

2023: Número especial. El lugar de la cultura en las crisis y transformaciones sociales y políticas en la América Latina del siglo XXI. Construyendo saberes latinoamericanos e interdisciplinarios desde los estudios doctorales

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73075

Abstract

Through history, landowners, have been represented as powerful, key figures who have influenced the social, economic and political processes of Ecuador since colonial times. This perception of absolutist hacienda patterns have contributed to the invisibility of other relevant figures from rurality, spaces in which social interactions were extremely complex because the presence of indigenous peasant communities altered, according to the conjunctures, the pre-established order by the landowners. The purpose of this article is analyze the crisis of gamonalism in Columbe, province of Chimborazo, a place in which the haciendas were a gravitating factor within the social dynamics; will be analyze the role of indigenous communities and their repertoires to the detriment of the gamonales.

Keywords:

ranch, power, crisis, repertoire

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López Andrade, E. (2023). Indigenous community and gamonalism: the crisis of the hacienda regime in Chimborazo (1950-1990). Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 335–371. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73075 (Original work published December 19, 2023)