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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Obraje"”.
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Weaving Subjects at the Obraje de Chincheros: Indigenous Contributions to the Colonial Aesthetic
… producers at the colonial textile mill, the Obraje de Chincheros (c. 1570-1820), influenced the colonial Peruvian aesthetic. Peruvian weavers were seen as superior weavers at the time of the Spanish invasion and obrajes were established to salvage this skill while they were simultaneously …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… system centered on a major textile workshop (obraje) and agropastoral estate called Hacienda Guachalá, in the northern Ecuadorian highland parish of Cangahua, canton of Cayambe. Scholars have long studied the hacienda land tenure system to understand its constitutive role in the political …