Mapuche Presence in Domestic Service in Concepción During the First Half Of The 19th Century
The main objective of this research is to identify how individuals belonging to the Mapuche people were integrated into domestic service in the province of Concepción during the first half of the 19th century. This investigation takes into account the circumstances surrounding this labor integration...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | INSTITUTO PANAMERICANO DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Historia de América |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistasipgh.org:article/5536 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistasipgh.org/index.php/rehiam/article/view/5536 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | mapuche sirvientes viajeros testamentos sirvientes mapuche servicio doméstico servants travellers wills mapuche servants domestic service |
| Sumario: | The main objective of this research is to identify how individuals belonging to the Mapuche people were integrated into domestic service in the province of Concepción during the first half of the 19th century. This investigation takes into account the circumstances surrounding this labor integration, with a particular focus on the master-servant relationship that facilitated their inclusion in testamentary legacies. On the review of more than 450 wills that were legalized in the various notary offices of Concepción between 1823 and 1861, a dozen cases were identified where it is expressly stated that the servant legatee was of Mapuche origin, and that the inheritance was bequeathed to them “for services”. The analysis of these wills, from a qualitative perspective, allows us to understand a series of common practices for the time, such as the use of Mapuche servants by the elites of Concepción, the change of Mapuche surnames for a “Chileanized” one, the transfer of surnames to servants when they had been raised by their masters, the bequest of various elements as remuneration for services and their insertion into a monetarized system, among others. The notarial sources will be complemented with the use of autobiographical accounts of travelers who were in Chile, such as Eduard Poeppig, Mary Graham or Edmund Reuel Smith, texts in which they give an account of how relations between Mapuche and Chileans functioned in the Frontier zone. |
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