Desde la Plaza a los Barrios. Pinceladas étnicas tras las casas y las cosas. Españoles e indios en la ciudad de La Plata, Charcas 1540-162

Abstract

Both historiography and historians do not agree upon the date of foundation of the first Spanish city in the Southern Andes. Leaving this issue behind, Villa de Plata was populated by a dense peninsular population among which were the encomendero families, merchants, miners, bureaucrats, artisans, and a large quantity of Indians that relocated mainly in the Parishes named San Lázaro and San Sebastián. Material cultures originated in differernt cultural universes left their print in the design and contruction of houses, furniture, decoration, domestic hardware and daily home goods that denoted the commoditization and consumptions embraced by the new dwellers, who could be recognized according to their ethnicity, class, and gender. This research focuses on houses and things, bodies and clothing, materials and materiality, representations and new identities shown along the early colonial period, when La Plata spent its time of splendor.

Keywords

• material culture
• identity
• representations
• Charcas (Audience of)
• La Plata
• practices