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Exploring Kinship in Anthropology and History: Surnames and Social Transformations in the Bolivian Andes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Harry Sanabria
Harry Sanabria*
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University of Pittsburgh
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This research note assesses how surnames in a Bolivian Quechua-speaking peasant community were transmitted and distributed from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth to show that parish register data can allow anthropologists to uncover the impact and significance of larger political, economic, and historical processes at the local level. I argue that patterns of surname transmission underwent a momentous shift between the early 1800s and the mid-1900s, from high percentages of illegitimate infants carrying their fathers' surname to virtually none doing so, an upshot of sweeping changes in sociocultural practices spawned by the revolution and agrarian reform in 1952 and 1953. This transformation in the allocation of patronyms to baptized infants reflected a new importance attached by both peasants and church officials to legitimate birth status and its coupling with genealogical reckoning via surname transmission. Such a coupling was important for peasants in order to cope with uncertainty and ambiguity in the midst of shifting and uncertain contexts structuring access to land and resources. It was also important for parish church officials, who probably thought it necessary to adhere more closely to national legal codes in a revolutionary setting.

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Research Reports and Notes
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 137 - 155
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Copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press

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I wish to thank Gabriele Stürzenhofecker for her incisive reading of various drafts of this research note and Juan Torrico for his ongoing support of my work. I am also grateful to the anonymous LARR reviewers for their excellent comments and suggestions, some of which I have not been able to address in this context.

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