Estructura pesquera y desarrollo marítimo en la costa extremo sur del Perú: Fishing structure and maritime development on the extreme southern coast of Peru

Estructura pesquera y desarrollo marítimo en la costa extremo sur del Perú

Abstract

The consequent study outlines schematic, systemic approaches and innovative objectives that lead to the understanding of autochthonous cultural development in the region, the coupling of Andean man to his environment, his respective social, economic, administrative and political organization, in this case, the fishing economy as an architect of the cultural development of coastal societies; the Andean socioeconomic, political, ideological, religious and cultural restructuring that would bring with it the meddling, usurpation and implantation of the already obsolete feudal and mercantilist administrative system by the avid Hispanic conquerors and how they will adapt and articulate this ancient form of government in the new, vast and differentiated territory and its population. It is about understanding, on the one hand, the reductive and dominant character of the Hispanic organization, and, on the other hand, the resistance, assimilation and positioning by the dissimilar Andean societies. The sociopolitical formation of the curacazgos on the extreme southern coast of Peru and northern Chile reflect the autonomous character of these coastal partialities, however, they corresponded to an organizational system of a larger nature; either in size and jurisdiction, called Señoríos, whose function was to ensure the political, economic and social stability of the partialities through the adequate redistribution of the goods produced and the strengthening of the ties of reciprocity and complementarity. The permanence of the coastal stately structures, after the conquest and implantation of the new Hispanic hegemonic system, allows us to contemplate the vitality and importance of the pre-Hispanic fishing economies in the New Spain world.