Abstract

BOIXADOS, Roxana  and  RODRIGUEZ, Lorena B.. Una hacienda en jaque: el Mayorazgo de Huasán y los desafíos de las transformaciones del siglo XIX (Argentina). Mundo agrar. [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.47, pp.139-139. ISSN 1515-5994.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.24215/15155994e139.

The mayorazgo of Huasán, founded in the mid-eighteenth century in the governorate of Tucumán (current Argentine territory), included extensive domains and was outlined as a prosperous agricultural complex, with projections in trade and mining. In the nineteenth century it faced the challenges of provincial and national political conjunctures, as well as various economic and social transformations until his definitive disengagement, in 1869. This article presents the advances of an ongoing research on the formation and functioning of Huasán's mayorazgo considering it as an economic enterprise, flexible and diversified, rather than a rigid institution oriented to exclusively sustain a family genealogical memory. We maintain that although the dynamic nature -characteristic of the formation of the mayorazgo– was difficult to sustain in the long term, long inheritance litigation and intense intra-family conflict were critical for the management of the company and the heritage.

Keywords : Mayorazgo; Agrarian history; Agricultural and livestock company; Inheritance conflicts; Catamarca; 18th & 19th centuries.

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