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The Many Meanings of Poverty - Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador (Hardcover)
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The Many Meanings of Poverty - Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador (Hardcover)
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This book analyzes the diverse understandings of poverty in a
multiracial colonial society, eighteenth-century Quito. It shows
that in a colonial world both a pauper and a landowner could lay
claim to assistance as the "deserving poor" while the vast majority
of the impoverished Andean population did not share the same
avenues of poor relief. "The Many Meanings of Poverty" asks how
colonialism shaped arguments about poverty--such as the categories
of "deserving" and "undeserving" poor--in multiracial Quito, and
forwards three central observations: poverty as a social construct
(based on gender, age, and ethnoracial categories); the importance
of these arguments in the creation of governing legitimacy; and the
presence of the "social" and "economic" poor. An examination of
poverty illustrates changing social and religious attitudes and
practices towards poverty and the evolution of the colonial state
during the eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms.
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