Luján de Vargas’ visita as a moment of legal redress.
Personal service, violence and uses of justice. Catamarca 1693
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Catamarca, violence, justice, encomienda, Ignacio Cavalli, Lujan de VargasAbstract
Between 1692 and 1694 the judge of the Audiencia de Charcas, don Antonio Martínez Luján de Vargas, conducted a visita to the governorship of Tucumán to interrogate and give legal redress to the Indians of the encomiendas. By analyzing the visita, this research addresses the problem of Indigenous capacity of adaptation into the colonial system at the end of the seventeenth century, arguing that the conquest dynamic on the territory and its destructuring consequences severely limited that capacity. Indigenous’ denounces for harsh treatment allows to analyze Indians’ possibilities to use colonial justice to defend their rights, the centrality that violence had in the functioning of the encomiendas, the legitimacy and power of don Ignacio Callavi, cacique of Pipanaco town and the encomendero’s attempt to use the visita to solve conflicts between them.
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