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A Native American System of Wetland Agriculture in Different Ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes (15th-18th Centuries)

Caillavet, Chantal·2008·Environment and History
DOI 10.3197/096734008x333554
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Abstract

Ridged fields and wetland agriculture are a key element in the culture and ecology of pre-Hispanic societies, and their role often survived well beyond the immediate aftermath of the Spanish conquest. Their importance was highlighted in a series of groundbreaking publications which have appeared from the mid-twentieth century onwards. In marked contrast to Mexico, however, there is much less historical data on this type of native agriculture in South America. Was this silence caused by these techniques falling into centuries of disuse on the arrival of the European colonisers? Or, despite ongoing use, did they fail to attract enough attention to surface in the literature? In the absence of descriptions written by the Spanish chroniclers, what other types of historical sources provide significant information on native traditions of land use? Native voices are recorded in legal texts that Indians dictated to satisfy Colonial bureaucratic requirements: wills, declarations during land litigation, and judicial ceremonies associated with land possession. In this paper, I have identified a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions and ecology of these agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.

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Authors
Caillavet, C.
Affiliations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Caillavet, Chantal
Venue
Environment and History
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Published
2008-08
Volume
14
Issue
3
Pages
331-53
ISSN
  • 0967-3407 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-7023
DOI
10.3197/096734008x333554
OpenAlex
W2062287301
Cited by
6
References
18
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2012: 3
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0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Environment and History (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
Keywords
wetland agriculture, pre-Hispanic agriculture, Native American land use, indigenous land tenure, Andean highlands, northern Ecuador, Spanish colonial period, agroecology, archival sources

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