El espacio vivido

Posesión, dominio y ventas de tierra en la frontera chilena (valdivia, 1790-1830)

authored by: Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Abstract: By looking into sales of indigenous land in the territory of Valdivia between 1790 and 1830, this article discusses how legal interactions were tied to the local spaces of rural habitation. Since ownership was linked with possession and use in Spanish colonial law, local social relations and shared local knowledge were crucial for determining legal ownership and ensuring the validity of land transfers. This article provides insights into how law operated in newly integrated colonial spaces, and reveals that land transfers did not yet constitute purely contractual relations but were instead socially negotiated transactions involving different levels of authority and dependency.
Organisation(s): History Department
Type: Article
Journal: Historia Critica
Volume: 2018
Pages: 3-21
No. of pages: 19
ISSN: 0121-1617
Publication date: 2018
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Geography, Planning and Development, Cultural Studies, History, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit67.2018.01 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

@article{c8d1be90f36c48b581e30ec29b09586b,
title = "El espacio vivido: Posesi{\'o}n, dominio y ventas de tierra en la frontera chilena (valdivia, 1790-1830)",
abstract = "By looking into sales of indigenous land in the territory of Valdivia between 1790 and 1830, this article discusses how legal interactions were tied to the local spaces of rural habitation. Since ownership was linked with possession and use in Spanish colonial law, local social relations and shared local knowledge were crucial for determining legal ownership and ensuring the validity of land transfers. This article provides insights into how law operated in newly integrated colonial spaces, and reveals that land transfers did not yet constitute purely contractual relations but were instead socially negotiated transactions involving different levels of authority and dependency.",
keywords = "Chile, Colonialism, Customary law, Indigenous peoples, Land tenure, Local knowledge",
author = "Saavedra, {Manuel Bastias}",
note = "Funding Information: ❧ Research for this article is funded by a Georg Forster research fellowship granted by the Alexander von Hum-boldt Foundation (Germany). I would like to thank Carmen Alveal, Mariana Dias Paes, Tamar Herzog, and the two anonymous reviewers of Historia Cr{\'i}tica for their detailed comments on this paper. Of course, any shortco-mings are my own. ",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.7440/histcrit67.2018.01",
language = "Spanish",
volume = "2018",
pages = "3--21",
journal = "Historia Critica",
issn = "0121-1617",
publisher = "Universidad de los Andes",
number = "67",
}