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"IN SPITE OF HER SEX": THE CACICA AND THE POLITICS OF THE PUEBLO IN LATE COLONIAL CUSCO*
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The Americas
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April 1, 2008
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In October, 1797, the indios principales of the Andean pueblo of Muñani appealed to the royal court in Cusco to depose their governor, or cacica, Doña MarÃa Teresa Choquehuanca.1 Not challenging hereditary Choquehuanca rule, they instead focused on MarÃa Teresa's incompetence and her sex, com
plaining of "the miseries that we have suffered with [her] inappropriate entry into the cacicazgo" adding that "on account of her distinct sex she should by justice be deposed, because she is not worthy of so estimable an office."2 That office was central to the indigenous politics of colonial Peru, the legal and administrative ordering of which placed most of the Indian population in relatively ...
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