Mantener la exvinculación a raya: reformas liberales y derechos comunitarios en Carangas, 1860-1930

Hanne Dominique Geertrui Jeannine Cottyn

Mantener la exvinculación a raya: reformas liberales y derechos comunitarios en Carangas, 1860-1930

Translated title of the contribution: Keeping exvinculacion at bay: Liberal reforms and communitarian rights in Carangas, 1860-1930.

Hanne Dominique Geertrui Jeannine Cottyn

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Abstract

The present article analyses the repercussions of the liberal laws implemented in Bolivia at the end of the nineteenth century for the indigenous communities of the (now fragmented) province of Carangas in the Oruro department. Despite the formal abolition of the community by the Alienation (Exvinculación) Act of 1874, the community members (comunarios) of Carangas managed to maintain their lands out of reach of the imminent land usurpations and privatizations. While the conservation of the communal land system is generally ascribed to ecological and demographic factors, a detailed analysis of historical sources of the province
evidences a more complex negotiation process. The communities and their representatives deployed a multifaceted strategy recurring to legal loopholes, legislative actions and rebellions.
The principal object of this resistance was the land inspection (Revisita de tierras) announced as a conditional juridical-technical intervention for the dismantling of the community. Although this negotiation strategy helped to safeguard community land rights, it implied a cost and generated a feedback effect with long-term side-effects in territorial, social and ethnic effects.

Translated title of the contribution	Keeping exvinculacion at bay: Liberal reforms and communitarian rights in Carangas, 1860-1930.
Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	97
Number of pages	132
Journal	Umbrales
Issue number	29
Publication status	Published - 2015

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