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The indigenous Lucaninos of Ayacucho XVII century

Abstract

This article studies the social-politic and economic situation of the indigenous Lucanas (Ayacucho), in a century of mayor declination and destruction demography (XVII). In this criticism situation, the lucaninos, incan longshoreman, in the prehispanic age, to achievement adapt and challenge the virreinal society, for become in indigenous of trade (singers, scribes, barbers, tailors, etc.), with the object of reduce the tax, the miners tax labors and the loss of lands. In that way, in the area of Peru, did not mayor presence of foreign indigenous, who in the high Andean plateau.