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Territorio y sociedad entre los Caya­pas del Siglo XVI

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Palop Martínez, Josefina·1990·Anuario De Estudios Americanos

Abstract

Como ya anunciamos en ocasión anterior, 1 en el presente trabajo nos proponemos analizar en profundidad las listas de bau tismos incluidos en la Relación de fray Gaspar de Torres de 1598 que se refieren a poblaciones de cayapas, yambas, lachas, y 1nalabas, habitantes de las cuencas de los ríos Mira, Mataje, Santiago, Caya pas y Onzole.Al parecer, los 1.484 individuos bautizados en los años 159 5 y 1597 en esa región podrían pertenecer a tres o cuatro grupos étnicos y se hallarían agrupados formando linajes emparen tados entre sí, cuyos caciques o principales encabezarían cada uno de los grupos a los que el propio Gaspar de Torres denomina «ay Ilus», haciendo así énfasis en el hecho de que tales grupos eran parientes en cierto modo.Aunque el análisis de los nombres de las personas bautizadas no nos permita establecer el sistema de parentesco en términos muy precisos, esperamos poder fijar, con un cierto grado de se guridad, los agrupamientos étnicos y lingüísticos y su grado de mestizaje mutuo.

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The paper analyzes the 1598 *Relación* of fray Gaspar de Torres, especially its baptism lists from 1595 and 1597, to reconstruct ethnic and territorial organization among Cayapas and neighboring groups in the Mira, Mataje, Santiago, Cayapas, and Onzole river basins. It identifies Cayapas and Malabas as the two main ethnic groups, with intermediate *ayllus* showing mestizaje with Lachas and Yambas.

Key findings

The document records 21 *ayllus*, each headed by a cacique or principal, and 1,484 baptized individuals; the paper treats *ayllu* here as “grupo étnico” rather than in the Inca sense. The two principal ethnic groups were the Cayapas, located between the Onzole and Santiago rivers, and the Malabas, south of the Mira and Mataje rivers; the territory between them was largely dominated by Cayapas but showed mestizaje with Lachas and Yambas around the upper Mira toward Lita. Cayapa personal names show sex-marking suffixes *ma* for women and *pa* for men; ten frequent Cayapa names account for 75% of men’s names and 69% of women’s names. Malaba male names end almost systematically in *ba* or *iba*, while women’s names most often end in *ca* or *ica*; the eight Malaba *ayllus* total no more than 186 individuals, only 52 of them women.

Methods

The study is an ethnohistorical and onomastic analysis of the baptism lists in fray Gaspar de Torres’s 1598 *Relación*, including the *Libro del Sancto bautismo* for expeditions in 1595 and 1597. It uses nominal series, name suffixes, and demographic counts by *ayllu* and sex, with tables listing 21 *ayllus* and totals of 522 women and 962 men. The paper also reconstructs the 1597 missionary route from July 8 to November 20, during which the pueblos Espíritu Santo and Santa María de Guadalupe were founded and 1,484 Indians were baptized.

Limitations

The paper states that analysis of baptized names does not allow the kinship system to be established in precise terms; the global figure of 1,443 or 1,484 seems very low for the whole territory because it excludes those still to be baptized, and calculating the unbaptized population would be risky. It also states that the marked sex imbalance in some *ayllus* can only be explained by conjectures such as female infanticide or women’s greater timidity toward baptism. Evident from the text: Torres described Lachas, Yambas, and Malabas less well because he did not travel through their lands in 1597 or paid them less attention, and the Malaba population figures are not representative because those groups approached the mission center with many reservations.

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Crossref · 10.3989/aeamer.1990.v47.i1.572

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    The baptism lists in the Relación de fray Gaspar de Torres accurately record the names, ethnic labels, and numbers of baptized individuals.

    “las listas de bau tismos incluidos en la Relación de fray Gaspar de Torres de 1598”
    “se bautizaron 1.484 indios de los grupos ya mencionados.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The personal names recorded in the baptism lists can be used to infer ethnic and linguistic affiliation and degree of mestizaje.

    “El posterior análisis de las series nominales nos permitirán apreciar hasta qué punto se pueden man tener esos grupos con sus respectivos nombres o no.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    The ethnic labels used by Fray Gaspar de Torres, such as cayapa, malaba, lacha, yamba, and pillalagua, correspond to actual distinct ethnic or linguistic groups.

    “De la relación anterior se desprende que los grupos étnicos de la zona que estudiamos son los cayapas, yambas, pillalaguas, ma-Iabas y lachas”
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Authors
Palop Martínez, J.
Venue
Anuario De Estudios Americanos
Published
1990-12-30
Volume
47
Issue
1
Pages
65-94
ISSN
  • 0210-5810 (ISSN-L)
  • 1988-4273
OpenAlex
W112116026
Cited by
1
References
0
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Type
journal article
Language
es
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Locations
  • Anuario de Estudios Americanos (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Keywords
territory, society, 16th century, indigenous peoples, colonial Peru, Andean peoples

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