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POPULATION IN EARLY
PaulGootenberg
StateUniversity NewYork, of Stony Brook
All numbers on the makeup of Peru's republican population are wrong, the one point on which historianscan agree. Peruvian governmentshad neither capacitynor thewill to mountthoroughsurveysof the theirscatteredand elusive Andean subjects. Between the late viceregal a census of 1791 (reporting population of 1,076,000)and thefirst modern of effort 1876 (yieldinga countof2,699,000)lies a century demographic of no man's land, despite partialsurveysclaimed for1812, 1836, 1850, and 1862. Unfortunately, historianscannot flyback in timeand redo thehead counts missed or mismanaged by successive governments, althoughthis miraclehas seemingly been worked for the older Incan and conquest periods.1 The best scholars can attemptat this point is to untangle the confusionsofexisting census documents and bringnew evidence to bear and weaknesses. on theirstrengths This articlewill address two problems,one quantitative, other the rifewithbroadersocial implications.First,myresearchhas unearthedan under therepublic)thatcan fillin untapped fiscalcensus of1827 (thefirst the serious gap between Peru's late-colonialpopulation and that of the guano era. These new data yielda post-independencepopulation ofabout a millionand a half,a higherfigurethan previouslythoughtand one that is can replace thespurious republican"census" of1836. This new statistic preliminary, it reveals realisticand robustdemographicgrowthrates yet duringthesetransformative years. Second, these data are also employed to reestimatethe "Indian"
*1thanktheAmericanCouncil ofLearned Societiesand theSocial Science ResearchCouncil forresearchsupport as well as Brooke Larson, RoryMiller,Noble David Cook, and the threeLARR mystery readersfortheir highlyconstructive criticism. 1. See Noble David Cook, Demographic Collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). This work is the model combiningdemographicand social history. two untanglingexercises,see David Browningand David Robinson,"The For of Originand Comparability PeruvianPopulation Data, 1776-1815," Bulletin theSociety of for LatinAmerican Studies25 (Nov. 1976):19-37; and RoryMiller,"The Population Problem in Nineteenth-Century Lima," manuscript, Amsterdam,1988.
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By modern standards, Peru did not achieve a genuine national census until1876,a half-century after independence. Even contemporary statisticiansand officialswere wary of the population estimates of the time.Indeed, census takerslikeManual Anastasio Fuentes and Mateo Paz Soldan made a cottageindustryof writingcritiquesof all extantfigures, including theirown. Their doubts, however,should be pondered elsewhere.2The truism holds thatall population figures were low,although by what margin or consistencyit is difficult know. Most surveys were to fiscalregisters actuallyreactivated recordingIndian and "casta" tributes, with all theconcealmentand flight thatsuch techniquesnaturally evoked among Peru's fluid underclasses (the most unreliable of all were the counts launched priorto military recruitment drives). Even today,Peru's difficult social geographycan challenge surveyors,and thus it is easy to imagine the obstacles for early regimes faced with civil war, faltering and primitive bureaucracies, communications. methSurveyand statistical ods were haphazard, to say the least. In lieu of fresh data, officials customarily projectedpast census figures onto muchlaterdates. Thus itis not unusual to findvillages or provinces exhibiting remarkabledemoa graphicstability (nil change between, say,1790 and 1850), or a revivalof veritable Incan mathematicaltechniques (amazingly round numbers, such as "100,000"). It is easier to indicate the least reliable population estimates for
2. The best compendium of census data and contemporary critiquesis thatby Francisco Pini RodolfifortheCentrode Estudios de Poblaci6ny Desarrollo,"La poblaci6n del Peru a lo largo de un siglo, 1785-1884," in Informe Demogrdfico Peru, 1970 (Lima: CEPD, 1972), del 19-125; see also the introduction, "Aspectos hist6ricos,"a collectiveeffort aided by Jorge Basadre, 3-18. For examples of critics,see Mateo F. Paz Soldan, Diccionario geogrdfico estadisticodel Peru (Lima: Imp. del Estado, 1878), xx-xxv,522-27, 716-40; Mateo Paz Soldan, del Geografia Peru' (Paris: ErminDidot, 1862), 154-56, 438; Manuel Anastasio Fuentes, Estadisticageneralde Lima (Lima: Tip. Nacional, 1858), 40-43; and M. A. Fuentes, Resumen del censogeneral habitantes Peruhechoen 1876 (Lima: Imp. del Estado, 1878), 1, prologue. de del 110
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republicanPeru than to confirm most accurate. Table 1 compares the the resultsof fivemajor national censuses between 1791 and 1876, arranged wherepossible accordingto their initialrepublicanpoliticalunits. The census of 1791, taken under ViceroyGil de Toboada, was an ecclesiastical survey that was updated and republished in successive official gazettes of the 1790s. Initial parish estimates yielded a total of 1,076,997Peruvians, includingsome 609,000 Indians, 244,000 mestizos, and 40,000blackslaves (thosebeing counted 136,000whites,41,000pardos, must have sensed new Bourbon taxes on the way). Because of the major flawofitsslow,two-part compilation, one recentstudydubbed thesurvey the "Censuses of approximately1785-91 and 1791-96."3 The highest figurein the series, published in the 1797 Guia del Peru', was 1,208,723. Beyond thepredictableundercountofAmazonian natives,anothermajor lacuna was omission of the densely populated southernIndian zone of Puno, attachedin 1791 to theAudiencia ofAlto Peru. By 1797 thepleasing numberof 156,000 appeared forPuno, which added to the 1791 census (along with 6,200 inhabitantsof northern Jaen)produces the population of1,239,197cited in table 1. In his "Memoria" of1797,ViceroyGil criticized census, venturthe ing a population closer to 1,300,000;Tadeo Haenke felt that1,200,000was the most realisticguess.4 A more recentcriticalstudyby Browningand Robinson scrutinizedthe database of the imperialcensuses. Althoughan originalhead count surelyoccurred,all of its addenda (especially the socalled imperialcensus of 1812) were fictitious compilationsand extrapolations,unfitforserious analysis.5Still,this 1791 effort strongviceregal by
el de y militar Virreynato Peru del del para aino 1793 3. H. Unanue,Gufa politica, eclesidstica
(Lima: Sociedad Academica de Amantes del Pais, 1793), 115, and editionsto 1797; data also
(1791-1795); and "Poblaci6n del Peru a lo largo de un siglo," 20-27 See also AlbertoArco Parr6,"Sinopsis hist6ricade los Censos en el Peru," in Peru, Direcci6n Nacional de Estay disticay Censos, Censo nacionalde poblaci6n ocupaci6n,1940 (Lima: DINEC, 1944), 1, prologue. Varioussourcescitea population of100,000forPuno in the1790s (e.g., the1797 Gufa). y I prefer more realisticfigureof 156,000 quoted by J.G. Paredes in Calendario gufade the de forasteros Lima para el aiio de 1828 (Lima: J.M. Concha, 1828), 5. A minimallydifferent population of 1,249,723(includingPuno) is cited in some works, but its originis unclear. Caste data can be foundin George Kubler,TheIndianCasteofPeru, 1795-1940: A Population and (Washington, D.C.: SmithsonianInstitution, StudyBaseduponTaxRecords CensusReports Publicationno. 14, 30-33, t. 9. 1952),Institute Social Anthropology of 4. See Memoriasde los virreyes hangobernado Peru,compiledby Manuel A. Fuentes el que del (Lima: F. Bailly,1859),4:76; and Tadeo Haenke, Descripci6n Peru(Lima: El Lucero, 1901), to 90. The latter has also been attributed InspectorGeneral Escobedo. figure of 5. Browningand Robinson, "Origin and Comparability Peruvian Data." This detailed critiqueof the 1791 census calls foran improvedaggregatebased on archivalresearch,althoughmost of the difficulties (apart fromthe datingof some surveysto the 1780s) lie with laterupdates, such as the so-called census of 1812. An even more minute(but inconclusive) which is analyzed in archivalcritiqueis the 1965 Cologne dissertationof Gunter Vollmer, Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz, The Populationof Latin America:A History(Berkeleyand Los of Angeles: University CaliforniaPress, 1974), 109-10.. ill
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LatinAmerican Research Review TABL E 1 Peruvian Census Dataof1791, 1836, 1850, 1862, 1876 and 1876 (Departments 1862 Only)
Province Lima Lima(Cercado) Callao Chancay Canta CaAete Huarochiri Yauyos Santa Ica
1836
1850
58,326 85,116 105,567 6,790? 8,352 17,539 18,712 13,932 13,892 16,549 12,276 2,594 18,031 23,428 30,525
14,384 18,155 15,553 37,541 14,258 15,207 15,264 16,311 12,920 45,697a
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Departmental totals 149,112 151,718 189,275 240,545 Junin (Ancash)b Pasco/Tarma Jauja Huanuco Huamalies Cajatambo Junin subtotals Ancash Huaylas Huari,Conchuco Conchucos Bajo Others (Santa) Ancashsubtotals 40,822 25,308 34,911 52,286 16,826 14,234 16,872 37,050 61,023 14,534 13,172 18,464 79,911 98,979a 89,796 106,567 28,189 33,199 32,027 24,799
144,243 245,722 278,859 49,667 69,077 39,833 53,693 75,956a 65,034a 9,670 284,830 (Ancash)
Departmental totals 201,259 263,111 401,501 523,045a La Libertad (Trujillo)b Cajamarca Chota 62,196 41,993 15,438
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1850 22,682a
44,491
53,815
86,738 (Lambayeque) 7,211 32,025 212,746 (Cajamarca) 60,845a 49,486a 7,560 11,864a 25,133 36,720 74,372a 131,464a 135,615 (Piura) 582,435a 34,284 (Amazonas)
18,426a 17,565
61,905
38,906a
35,991
96,189
259,449 (Puno)
Departmental totals Cuzco (Apurimac) Cuzco (Cercado) Quispicanchi Urubamba Paucartambo Paruro Abancay Calca y Lares Aymaraes
100-156,000d
156,000 286,148 205,328a 41,152 49,416 28,360 17,206 17,732 21,912a 14,223 18,228 27,005 19,674a 14,972a 15,403 15,926 16,104 18,452 22,985
259,449
243,032
(Cuzco)
118,525 (Apurimac)
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LatinAmerican Review Research TABL E 1 (continued) 1876 (Departments 1862 Only) 27,667 20,248 27,674a 21,231
63,311a
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34,968
361,557a
25,970a 15,725 12,474 27,337 12,020 111,559 3,245 5,146 9,365 13,161 30,917
16,011
44,898 27,807
34,722 33,165
24,618
(Ayacucho)
142,215
Andahuaylas
Ayacuchosubtotals
22,835
(Huancavelica)
103,069
subtotals
Arequipa
53,334
(Arequipa)
28,279
18,776a
33,815a
(Moquegua) (Tacna)
28,785 36,009
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Province
Tarapaca
1791
7,923
1836
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1850
10,418
136,801
136,812
196,801
214,939
Sources: See textand its footnotesfor discussion. A comprehensivesecondary source is counts CEPD, "Poblaci6n del Peru a lo largo de un siglo," 19-125. See CEPD fordifferent with Puno (under the same census) of aggregatepopulation. For 1791, the authorrectified "rectified" and Jaenadditions. For 1836, see 1847 almanac count. For 1850, see the official census. For 1862,the 1863 almanac count was used. aAuthor's recalculation for boundary changes. Due to boundary uncertainties,not all columnscan be added. Departmentaltotalsand subtotalsare mostcertaindata used fornationaltotals. bLate-colonialTarma includes subsequent departmentsof Junin,Ancash, Huaylas. Latecolonial Ayacucho (or Huamanga) includes subsequent departmentsof Ayacucho and Huancavelica. Late-colonial Arequipa includes subsequent departmentsof Arequipa and is Moquegua. Late-colonialTrujillo laterLa Libertadand includeslaterPiura. demarcations. clncludesotherminorand shifting estimatesvary; partofViceroyalty Upper Peru; 156,000is 1797 total. of dLate-colonial eThe 1832 census totalwas 232,774.
was clearlysuperiorto thosethatfollowed(perhaps thereason authorities why its numbers show up farinto the republican era). And until historians produce the new archival aggregate required, this census must serve as theindispensable "colonial" baseline forstudyof the nineteenth century. The next census allegedly occurred in 1836, producing a republican total of 1,373,736 during the depression and armed strugglesof Peru's caudillo era. This time officialsrecorded no ethnic distinctions, new ideals ofa casteless society. commensurate (one supposes) withtheir According to this census, the population had inched up a mere 10.9 overthenextdecade years. Destined forrepetition percentoverforty-five of and a half,this "census" first appeared in the Guia de forasteros 1837, withoutclues as to methodologyor even actual recounts.The Guia crypand littoral provinces ticallydubbed it as "Population of the departments activateduntil 1836 and otherdata."6 Essenaccordingto the matriculas this so-called census was no more than a reading of tax registers tially,
de y J.Masfas, 1836),14-15, 5; and Eduardo Carrasco,Calendario gufadeforasteros la Republica Primaria,1846),5 and provincialsurveys. de Peruanaparael anio 1847 (Lima: Imp. Instrucci6n continuedto be published untilthe 1851 almanac. These figures
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found a population of 2,461,936.9The increase representeda 23 percent rise over 1850, a galloping rate considering reports of devastatingepidemics of typhoid,cholera,and diphtheriain the sierrain the late 1850s. By this time,the heightof exportprosperity, Peru's population had doubled since its colonial days. A real, if hasty,census had also been recorded, as evident in the detailed provincialbreakdowns by sex and age (but withwomen and childrentellingly lumped together). Many contemporary critiques appeared, like that by Paz Soldan ridiculingits poor an organizationand patent errors(using assumed errorratios,he offers of upper-bound alternative "4,000,000 almas").10Nevertheless,this census marked a new departure in Peruvian statistics,one liable to invite to because it was the first supersede traditional and parish criticism tax recordswithdirectsurveytechniques. The conclusions ofthe1862census lie well withinnineteenth-century trendlines. Peru's firstmodern census, which detailed its preparationsand in procedures,registered 1876, a timewhen theguano boom was collapsing and Peru was approaching its crushingwar with Chile. Directed by Frenchstatistician Georges Marchand and compiledand publishedby the who expertM. A. Fuentes, thecensus mobilized a small armyof officials forthefirst timecollectedminuteoccupational, social, and regionaldata. This information reveals, for example, the profounddiversityof Peru's regional social structures:that 1,554,678 of 2,699,106 Peruvians were deemed Indian; that only 15 percent of the population lived in towns and thatthecountry's (includingmostofPeru's498 confessed "israelitas"); forty-four hundred "haciendas" were home to a quarterof the ruralfolk. The census totalof2.7 millionPeruvians,while open to question thenand now, is still regarded as a "rigorous effort"by the extensive modern and critical literature. The weakest data concernsome provincialstatistics social itemslike occupation and literacy."l More alarmingthan theimper9. For various tables, totals, and critiques,see "La poblaci6n del Peruia lo largo de un siglo," 42-50. For accounts of sierraepidemics in the 1850s, see Pablo Macera, "Las plantaciones azucareras andinas (1821-1875)," in Trabajosde historia,edited by Macera (Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura,1977),4:195-96, and census data, 4:277-94. (Paris: E. Didot, matemdtica, fisicay politica de 10. Mateo Paz Soldan, Compendio geograffa, general Lima,2d ed. (Paris: Laine et de 1863),2:454-55; Manuel Anastasio Fuentes,Estadistica (Lima: Imp. La Revista, Harvard,1866),41-43; and HildebrandoFuentes, Cursode estadistica 1907),311. en de del 11. See Peru, Direcci6nde Estadistica,Censogeneral la Repuiblica Peruiformado 1876 see (Lima: Imp. del Estado, 1878), 7 vols.; fora self-critique, M. A. Fuentes's prologue to Resumende censo. For a professionalappraisal, see Arco Parr6, "Sinopsis hist6ricade cende (Lima: Seminariode Histosos," xxxi-xxxiii; Alida Diaz, El censogeneral 1876 en el Perui or T. ria Rural Andina, 1974). For some of many recentuses, see Clifford Smith, "Patternsof War,"in Region Class in and Urban and RegionalDevelopmentin Peru on theEve ofthePacific of ModernPeruvian History, edited by RoryMiller(Liverpool: Institute Latin AmericanStudof ies, University Liverpool,1987),monographno. 14, 77-102; or H. Pintoand A. Goicochea, en Ocupaciones el Peru, 1876 (Lima: Universidadde San Marcos, 1977),4 vols.
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Growth (%)
10.9 45.7 61.5 34.9 117.8
98.7
Span (years)
45 14 59 26 85
71
Sources: Author'scalculation fromtable 1; annual rate determinedby compound interest formula.Compare withrevisionsshown in table 5.
to 2.73 percentper year: a tenfoldaccelerationcomparableonly with the worstThirdWorld"population explosions" ofthemid-twentieth-century. No reason existsto believe thatPeruvian growthground to a halt during the years of the late colonyand earlyrepublic; forexample, one findsno reportsof crushingepidemics. Nor does any explanationfita phenomenal burst of fecundityin between 1836 and 1850, duringthe heightof Peru's caudillo era. For long-term contrasts,it should be borne in mind thatPeru's yearlydemographicadvance from1791 to 1850 was 0.82 percent and over the fullnine decades (1791-1876),0.92 percent. Such rates are reasonable and consistentones forbuoyantagrariansocieties,which Peru was afterits demographicupswing in the mid-eighteenth century. The 1836 figureis thusnotonlybogus but fartoo low. The great mystery then is the lacuna between 1790 and 1850, six decades evenly divided between colonyand nationhood,and a period of importantshifts in demographic behavior throughoutmuch of Latin America. In the nineteenthcentury, population growth-or more often or "despoblacion" "faltade brazos"-even carried specific political overtones. As one republican observed in 1826, "If the population has been or stationary even diminished,it would be the most flagrant proofof the of that homicidal character thegovernment ruledus untilIndependence."14 Which regime caused the sluggish growth observed until 1836? New evidence blames neither.
14. Paredes, Guia de Limaen 1828,5-6. The obsessive demographicconcernwith"faltade en brazos" is epitomizedby Juande Arona in P. P. Soldan y UnAnue'sLa inmigracion el Perui (Lima: Imp. Universo, 1891). Given Peru's robust naturalpopulation growth,nineteenthelitecriesover "depopulation" appear to have been highlyideological.The underlycentury of ing issue was the availability exploitable(non-Indian) wage labor,as argued by Macera in "Plantaciones azucareras," 68-91, and others.
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Historians might have suspected that Peru actually attempteda national census in 1827. Clues abound in later census reports and in to if references a "La Mar census."15More surpriscontemporary, cryptic, range, and richness of the survivingdata. Pubing are the accessibility, gazette, La PrensaPeruana,and lished provinceby provincein the official deotherperiodicals between 1827 and 1829, no fewerthan thirty-four Peruvianprovincesof 1827 tailed surveysare available forthefifty-seven Fragments thisdata have alreadybeen published, even in major works of but of demographichistory, withouttheirfullpotentialbeing realized.16 Never aggregated when collected, these accounts cover 914,176 Peruof vians, roughlythree-quarters theknown population in thelate colonial era. enumerate The thirty-four standardized and detailed Estadi'sticas and theyprovide income caste categories(indigenas, castas,and esclavos), estimates for groups by province-a feat not even attemptedin 1876.17
15. See Paredes, Guia de Limaen 1828, 5 (and the 1837 edition); Josede Larrea y Loredo, "Bases para la estadisticadel Peru" (1826), in Tierra poblaci6n el Peru(ss. xviii-xix), y en compiled by Pablo Macera (Lima: Seminario de Historia Rural Andina, 1972), 3:525-55 (originallypublished in La PrensaPeruana,Lima, 1826). See also PrensaPeruana,3 Mar. 1828, and other sources (Memorias de Hacienda). 'Aspectos hist6ricos" describes Larrea's efforts, withoutcitingsources,but simplyconsidersthecensus failedand unpublished(p. 11). Yetits data somehow found theirway into the famous French census collectionof Coquebert de Montbert.Occasionally,even aggregatesare cited fora "La Mar census," as in Arco Parr6's "Sinopsis hist6rica."But thefigureof 1,249,728actuallyrepresentsa common1791 estimate includingPuno. Macera published twenty-nine thedocumentsin his 1972 Tierra poblaci6n of 16. Notably, y (3:557-623), along with later archivalmatriculas.Sanchez-Albornozreproduced twentyof thesein ThePopulation LatinAmerica, 111, t. 4.3. Neitheranalystattempts compileor to of p. analyze thematerialas a viable census. 17. This database provides 59 percent of the 1827 population produced below. Because Peruvianperiodicalcollectionsvaryin breadth(Yale's SterlingLibrary thebest), the "Estais distica"sources listedhereare arrangedin orderofencounterin theofficial gazetteLa Prensa Peruana(PP) or copies in El Telegrafo Lima (TL). For the departmentof Lima: Canta (PP, de 1 Aug. 1827); Lima (PP, 13 Aug. 1828); Chancay (PP, 4 Sept. 1828); Cahete (TL, 25 Aug. 1828); Huarochiri(TL, 16 Oct. 1828); Yauyos(PP, 29 April1828); and Santa (TL, 1 Aug. 1828). For Junin:Pasco (PP, 26 Aug. 1829); Huanuco (PP, 26 Aug. 1829); Jauja(PP, 29 Aug. 1829); Huaylas (PP, 5 Sept. 1829); Huamalies (PP, 5 Sept. 1829); Cajatambo (PP, 25 April 1829); Conchucos Alto/Huari(PP, 12 May 1829); and Conchucos Bajo (PP, 12 May 1829). For La Libertad: Cajamarca (PP, 11 Aug. 1829); Chachapoyas (PP, 11 July1829); and Piura (PP, 24 Feb. 1829). For Cuzco: Abancay (PP, 23 May 1829); Calca y Lares (TL, 26 July 1828); Quispicanchi (PP, 13 May 1828); Urubamba (PP, 14 March 1829); Paucartambo(PP, 17 Mar. 1829); and Paruro (PP, 1 Apr. 1829). For Ayacucho: Huamanga (incomplete,PP, 14 Feb. 1827); Angaraes Huancavelica (PP, 5 Mar. 1829); Parinacochas(PP, 21 Apr. 1829); and Lucanas (TL, 25 Oct. 1828). ForPuno: AzAngaro(PP, 16 Feb. 1829); Carabaya (TL, 3 Jan.1829); Lampa (PP, 27 Dec. 1828); Chucuito (TL, 27 Dec. 1828); and Puno Huancane (TL, 17 Dec. 1828). For Arequipa: Arica/Tacna 5 May 1829). Most stray of descriptions otherprovincesappeared (PP, in late 1829 in bothpapers. The totalofthirty-fourthefullextent published (or promptly is of delivered)data on provincesbecause, withone exception,itsquares withnoticespublished in de by thefinanceministry "Estado de debito en que se hallan las subprefecturas departa-
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These data can thus formthe basis for regional and caste distribution studies,ifnota fullnationalproductestimatefor1827 For example,in the crudest calculation, Peruvian per capita income was a believable 30.4 current pesos in 1827 (with Indians averaging22.8 and non-Indians,45.5 pesos).18 More centralto the presentstudy,the series definitively proves the inauthenticity the 1836 census. All the northerndepartmental of statistics alreadyexisteda decade earlier(the1836 "census" simplycopied 1827 figures),and the population of the southerndepartmentsin 1827 inevitablyexceeded the colonial figuresstill being cited for 1836. This distortionis the centralone in early republican demographicrates, not any lack of data. Moreover, with these new data, historians can now a construct new estimateof the total1827 population, a reliableone that can resolvemanyofthemysteries enumeratedabove. The first ordersto conducta republicanmatriculacensus, forfiscal and electoralpurposes, were issued in early 1826. The head count was managed by Peru'scapable Ministro Hacienda, Josede Larreay Loredo. de His introductory treatise written census takersin the "Juntas for Departamentales" elaborates theoreticaland practical aspects of statisticsand even venturesa preliminary calculationof the population.19Ifbirthrates were "normal" between 1795 and 1826, Peru's population should have approached 1,700,000by 1826,includingslave and whiteimmigrants. The actual expansion, however,would have been slower in the era of colonial crisis. By August 1827, thefirst provincialEstadi'sticas began appearing in theLima press; by mid-1829,thirty-four been published (see table3). had Some local statisticians were extremely zealous. One survivingsample is
mentos. .. por contribuciones"(Telegrafo,13 Dec. 1828) and "Raz6n del numero de contribuyentescomprendidosen los departamentosde la Republica" (PrensaPeruana, Mar. 1829). 5 But a few matriculaswere also published forthe later1830s, and thisaccountdoes notlimit the numberof censuses actuallymounted in the 1820s. Kubler,forexample, cites an 1834 documentalludingto 118 earlyregisters. 18. These estimatescan be further developed to help measure growthand distribution the century; an alternativetax-based calculation produces a comparable28.4 throughout pesos ofper capita income.Bothare "ballpark"figures, closelytrailing estimatesforMexico, as expected. On Mexico, see JohnH. Coatsworth,"Obstacles to EconomicGrowthin Nineteenth-Century Mexico," American Review83, no. 1 (Feb. 1978):81-85. Historical 19. Larrea, "Bases para la estadistica,"3:543-49. Larrea's estimateassumed a naturalnet increase of 14,103 annually from1790, 1500 in slave imports(a high late-colonialratethat historians notaddress),and 300 in European immigration. his increaseof472,859over do But a population in the 1790s cited as 1,325,000has been adjusted downward because Larrea actuallyuses thefirst republicanPuno estimatesof205,000in his base.
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prefects,particularly the far north (La Libertad) and far south (Arein of quipa), lapsed in zeal, as mightbe expected in zones at thefringes the Lima state. March 1829 (covering237,783Indian A summaryfiscalreportfrom laments the factthatthirteenprovinces remained and casta tributaries) (Departmentof unreported: Cangallo, Huamanga, and Castrovirreyna Ayacucho); Aymaraes(Cuzco); Huamachuco, Chota, and Jaen(La Liberhad actuallydelivereditscensus).21 tad); and all ofArequipa (Tacna-Arica were complete: the vast and centralmesBut several entiredepartments with its eightprovinces(263,111,one-halfof tizo zone of Junin-Ancash, themcasta); and forthe first time,all fiveprovincesof the dense Indian of altiplano territory Puno (200,250, 94.3 percent of them Indian). The of department Lima lacked onlytheprovinceofIca, and thecensus forthe capital itself(at 58,326) is new to historians. Coastal slave populations, while unspecifiedforurban Lima, Ica, and Trujillo,are also crucialfindings datingjust after disruptionsduringtheindependence era. All the the matriculas display documented changes since the 1790s (one official responsibility was to compare rises and falls since 1793). Theirvariation underscores, along with archivalevidence, the actual occurrenceof the new head counts. Each report includes up-to-date descriptionsof the for economyand geographyof each province(indicating, example,those with survivingcottageindustries),even fromthe statistically delinquent zones.22
de de 20. J.D. Choquehuanca, Ensayode estadistica completa los ramos econ6micos-politicosla en Provincia Azangaro el Departamento Puno de la Republica de de Peruanaen el quinquenio desde 1825 hasta 1829 inclusive(Lima: M. Corral, 1833); J.M. C6rdova y Urrutia,Estadistica historica, geogrdfica, industrial comercial los pueblosque componen provincias Departay de las del de mento Lima(Lima: Imp. Instrucci6n Primaria, 1839),chap. 7.These figures probablydate to as earliermatriculas, seen in published updates in Telegrafo(Huarochiriand Chancay,8 Mar. 1837,12 Aug. 1837) and in La Misceldnea (Lima) (Chancay y Santa, 25 Jan.1831,and Puno, 26 Jan. 1831). Following the same model is a detailed mid-1830seconomic census of Huaraz (Huaylas) laterpublished in El Comercio (Lima), Dec. 1839-Jan. 1840. C6rdova y Urrutiapossiblyused the unstudied Lima census of 1831, which covers occupations, nationality, and neighborhoodcomposition;an archivalversionof Districts1 and 4 is foundin the Biblioteca of in Municipalde Lima.All evidence pointsto a flurry undiscoveredcensus activity theearly republic. 21. "Raz6n de nuimero contribuyentes de comprendidosen los departamentosde la Repuiblica,"PrensaPeruana,5 Mar. 1829; "Estado de debito en que se hallan las subprefecturas de departamentos... por contribuciones,"Telegrafo,13 Dec. 1829. 22. The Lima census ("ProvinceofCercado," withnearbyvillagesand haciendas) is found in PrensaPeruana,13 Sept. 1828, population 58,326 and income (riqueza)of $5,008,177Jose Serrathought thistotaltoo low by one-third. is based, however, a flat It on 50,000withincity walls and does not differentiate urban Indians and slaves. (Rory Miller pQintsout tricky boundary problems in Lima censuses.) Overall, these totals were reported for slaves: Caiiete, 2,132; Chancay,3,799; Lima (haciendas), 4,602; and Santa, 374. Provincesreporting wereYauyos,Quispicanchi, Chachapoyas, Cajamarca, Huanuco, Contaxablemanufactures
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in In sum, in Peru's first republican "empadronamiento" 1827, officials exhibiteda rarethoroughnessforthe nineteenthcentury. is thus It the only matriculacensus worthyof the name, given the factthat the Peruviantaxationsystemwas soon to begin its inexorabledecline during in therestof the nineteenthcentury:first, the politicalbreakdown of the caudillo period, and after1850, in the fiscal affluenceand laxityof the guano era. This factexplains why most ofKubler's archivalregisters date between 1826 and 1830, and why his figuresclosely matchthe numbers were estabpublished from1827 to 1829. Far more registers(fifty-eight) lished in thelate-1820sthan in 1836 (ten), or even duringthe social peace And these totalsconsideronly thelocated ofthelate 1840s (twenty-nine). records,as by 1830,Peruviantreasurydocumentsexhibiteda completely revised national tax base. In short,the 1827 census data not only supersede those of 1836, theyappear superior to the census of 1850.23Moreover,these data can be takeneven further.
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a Fromthese and additionalsources, scholarscan construct verifiable estimateforPeru's post-independencepopulation. Of thethreetypes ofdata used, themain buildingblockconsistsofthethirty-four provinces reporting new directdata for1827. The combined population of these thirty-four varied zones was 914,176,with66 percent(603,057)considered "Indian." Due to boundary can changes, however,onlythirty provinces(with839,735inhabitants) be compared directlywith those of 1791-1793. Their combined increase
desuyos, Pasco, Jauja,Huaylas, Huamalies, Lambayeque, Cangallo, Piura, Paruro,Parinacochas, Cajatambo, Abancay,Huari, Santa, Lampa, Chuquito, and Puno. These reportsinclude descriptions.The patternof productionwas woolens in the south and cottonstoward the north.In 1826 Larrea estimatedthat25,000 familieswere already out of work (with an importcompetition.See Larrea, "Bases para la estaincomeloss oftwo millionpesos) from became a leader in Peru's early distica,"542. Perhaps thisis thereason why thisstatistician J. que protectionist movement.See Josede Larrea y Loredo, Principios sigui6el ciudadano de de Larreay Loredoen el Ministerio Hacienda y Secci6nde NegociosEclesidsticos que estuve de encargado (Lima: J.M. Concha, 1827). 23. Kubler,IndianCaste ofPeru, t. 1. Ideally,the totalover the period 1826-1854,at fiveyear intervals,would be 348 registers;118 were known to existby 1834. See J.M. Pando, al el de en de Peruana, findelaino 1830,presentado Memoria sobre estado la Haciendade la Repuiblica Congreso J.M. Pando (Lima: J.Masias, 1831), app. 4, "Estado que manifiestalo debido por cobraren las contribuciones directaspor un aho, terminomedio, de julio de 1826 a dic. de 1829."On the tax base generally, consultJoseSerra, "Memoria sobre el curso y progresode y en (ss. las contribuciones, 1831," in Macera's Tierra poblaci6n el Perui xviii-xix)(1977) 2:441should have appeared 51. Since Kubler'sstudyoverthirty yearsago, newlylocated registers in theArchivoGeneral de la Naci6n (mostlyin AGN sec. H-4, whereI counted 56 listed for the late 1820s, some not used by Kubler). Others are surfacingin regional archives. For a (the "patentes" business tax), see Paul Gootenrecentstudybased on archivaltax registers berg, 'Artisans and Merchants: The Making of an Open Economy in Lima, Peru, 1820 to 1981. 1860,"M.Phil. thesis,OxfordUniversity,
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Lima Lima (Cercado) Chancay Canta Cainete Huarochiri Yauyos Santa Total Junin Pasco Jauja Huanuco Huamalies Cajatambo Huaylas Conchucos Alto (Huari) Conchucos Bajo Total La Libertad/Amazonas Cajamarca Piura Chachapoyas Total Puno Azangaro Huancane (Puno) Carabaya Chucuito Lampa Total
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n.d.a 3,869,362b 661,717 4,122c 347,992 1,564 416,661 1,517d 381,526 409 256,277 1,295 83,634 1,603e
1,035,521h 1,653,314 597,485 373,993 491,548 1,134,258 716,485 857,687 6,860,291i 1,009,904 1,097,350 349,299
44,250m 188,850n 11,394 2,528 5,668i -7,307i -8,110 10,179 6,899 23,033 9,530 12,278 9,760 30,654 11,812 3,832 5,388 651 2,366 4,884 1,285
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Increase over Population 1793figures Indians Castas 6,498 20,272 31,354 10,233
68,357r
20,185 20,185s
1,409
10,545
9,640
668,017
National totalst 914,176 603,057u311,119v 27,651,000w La Sources: Prensa El de see Peruana, 1827-1829; Telegrafo Lima, 1827-1829; also n. 17ofthis article.
b$5,157,859;alternative gross estimate Limaincome "1/4 higher." for is cAnd 3,799 slaves. dAnd 2,132 slaves. eAnd 374 slaves. Ica fMissing and Callao; forLima Indians and slaves, suburbsonly. Cerro de Pasco. gExcluding mines. hExcluding !Seems to includeboth "Conchucos"; boundaries uncertain. jIndians are 50 percentofthe provincialtotal;totalincomerepresents26.1 pesos per capita. kBoundary change likelyexplains unusual negativeor positivefigure. 'Missing Lambayeque, Chota, Huamachuco, Jaen,Maynas, and Pataz. to mAccording the 1797 census. n94.3percentofthepopulation. 021.2 pesos per capita. qCastrovirreyna district, incomplete. rMissingpartofHuamanga and Cangallo, Huanta, Andahuaylas, and Tayacaja. t34provincesout of57.
vIncludes10,907slaves and undifferentiated "casta" populations ofLima and Huamanga. w30.4 pesos per capita (incomes includetaxes).
comes to 162,112 over 1791, accounting for 58.4 percent of Peru's total increase. Thus theirexpansion rate of 23.9 percent over thirty-six years alreadyrepresentsa farmore reasonable pace than previous ratesbased on the longer lapse to 1836, and in conservativefashion, exceeds those estimatesbased on weaker data. Overall,thesepublished data accountfor 59 percentofthe 1827 population estimate(see table 4). The nextstep is to locate and fitdata forthe missingtwenty-three 125
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1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827 I K1836 K1836 K1836 K1836a
Total Ayacucho K Huamanga Huancavelica 1827 Parinacochas 1827 I Cangallo Lucanas K Huanta I Andahuaylas K Castrovirreyna I Tayacaja I,K Total Arequipa Arica/Tacna 1827 Cercado I I Caylloma Camana I Condesuyos I I Moquegua I,K Tarapaca Total Amazonas Chachapoyas Maynas PaTotal 1827 1814 K1836
National total 1,516,693 See for For see Sources: text explanation. 1827 2; the registers census, table K denotes Kubler the is by using 1836"census";1832 theCuzcocensus; covering 1826-1830; cited Kubler, K36, I stands interpolated for 1814refers theMaynassurvey that to of year; figures, 1791-1850; andCU stands C6rdova Urrutia's figure. for 1837 y
a1836figures basedon 1791census. actually
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provinces from Kubler'sworkand othersources.Kubler'smeticulous all study provides archival 164 population registers, virtually 58ofhis and earliest counts (1827-1830) crosscheck with well 1827 published figures or differ onlyby minimal updates.Additional earlyregisters from Kubler, the 1836 "census" (thosedatingclearly thelate 1820s),and reliable to from 1832Cuzco survey serve usabledatafor all items the as sixteen the of Thissecondpopulation block an comes 395,228, to with increase of 88,037 since1791, 31.8percent thetotal or of treated expansion. Provinces in thiswayincludeIca, Huamachuco, Jaen, Pataz,Cuzco (thetown,or cercado), Aymaraes, Cotabambas, Chumbivilcas, Tinta, Huamanga,Lucanas, and Andahuaylas. new data existforTrujillo, by all acNo but counts,its population barelyadvanced.The Maynasfigure 26,101 of a comes from separate 1814parish a one survey, more rigorous thanmost forAmazoniaand also inherently conservative.25 Boundary changes by 1827arealso amended with published here.Combined the blockconsideredabove,thecalculation nowencompasses with forty-eight provinces inhabitants. Directdata thusforms 85.2 percent the total of 1,292,963 estimate 1827and morethannine-tenths Peru'snew population for of growth. remain ones: thenewnorthern Onlynineprovinces truly sketchy of province Chota;and in thesouth,Cangallo,Huanta,Castrovirreyna, Condesuyos, Caylloma, Arequipa(cercado), Camana, and Moquegua. Themethod used for category toadd one-half their this was of expansion overtheperiodfrom 1791to 1850,a modest risein mostcases and one withextant This third consistent Kublerregisters.26 interpolated block contributes to 223,730 14.8percent) thetotal (or population 1827Their for slower rate since1791underscores conserthe expansion of15.8percent vative taken with weakest the data. approach Thefinal of one million-isthenew figure 1,516,693-or and a half
detailedbreakdownof(pub24. See Kubler,IndianCasteofPeru,extendedtt.2-3. Another lished) provincialstatistics be foundin "Poblaci6ndel Peru a lo largode un siglo," 62-81; can and in its 1832 Cuzco census, 30 (fortheoriginalversion,see Flores, Gufadel Cuzco). 25. For discussion of populations of Amazonia, see "Poblaci6n del Peru a lo largo de un siglo," 27-29, 62. In thisregionof Peru, European disease was stilltakinga tollin the nineand Indianization,by means ofliteralreconquestof settler teenthcentury, groups,went on untilthe 1850s. their 26. For the south, new surveyswill likelysurface,as regional historiansintensify records).This estimate,alwork (in Buenos Aires or by researching Bolivianconfederation is or but ternatively, could have used annual geometric, provincial, caste ratios, thedifference minimal. See my discussion and table 7 of this article.For some recentsouthernparish deA Study(Boulder, mography, Noble David Cook, ThePeopleoftheColca Valley: Population see y social:historia Colo.: Westview-Dellplain, 1982);orLuis Miguel Glave, "Demografia conflicto de las comunidadescampesinas en los Andes del sur,"IEP Documento de Trabajo23 (Lima: Instituto Estudios Peruanos, 1988). Both these sources include some post-independence de material.
24 missingprovinces.
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Review LatinAmerican Research 1791-1940 Rates Peruvian TABL E 5 Revised Demographic of Population Growth, Years Covered Revised 1791-1827 1827-1850 1827-1862 1827-1876 Context 1791-1850 1850-1876 1791-1876 1876-1940 Growth (%) 22.4 31.9 62.3 77.9 61.5 34.9 117.8 130.0 Time Span (years) 36 23 35 49 59 26 85 64 Annual Rate (%) 0.56 1.21 1.39 1.18 0.82 1.03 0.92 1.31
from ratecomputed compound Sources: Author's calculations tables 2, and4; annual 1, by interest formula.
estimate the Peruvian of 61.6 populationin 1827 Of thesePeruvians, were Indians,following paralleltabulation. a percent ExceptforAreof and the perennial quipa, partsof La Libertad, mystery Amazonia, to thesefigures unlikely change much,even if new data should are falls of of surface. overall The estimate short Larrea's loose projection 1.7 it the but calculation million, then should, beinga conservative following late turbulent colonial the is years.Likeall surveys, final figure probably "low."Butits deviation from another series-Peru'sreal populationis thaninthebestcensusdataavailable. no likely greater Whatdoes a 1.5 million in population 1827revealaboutdemographic growth Peru?Priorto thisestimate, in Peruvian demographic ratesappearedbizarre.Between1791and 1836,growth seemedessennil to tially at a 0.23percent annualrate, before suddenly accelerating an 2.73 rate 1836and 1850.Byeliminating equallyaberrant percent between thebogus 1836census and substituting largerand empirical the 1827 are count,theseobviousdistortions eliminated table5). The result (see now shows thatPeru'spopulationgrewby an estimated 22.4 percent between1791 and 1827 and by 31.9 percent between1827 and 1850. Annualcompound growth rateswerethen 0.56and 1.21percent respecwithin trend 0.82registered theentire a of over tively, spanofsixdecades. the Bycomparison, ratefor1827-1876 1.18percent for1791-1876, is and 0.92percent; eventhemodern trend is (1876-1940) closeat1.31percent. These demographic ratesof 0.6 to 1.3 percent represent typical ones forbuoyant the societies.For example, comparable preindustrial andWalesjustprior theindustrial to was pace in England revolution 0.71
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percent;also, nineteenth-century Mexico grewby 0.83 percentannually.27 The new ratesare also in line with Peru's long-term demographictrajecfrom toryafter country's the belated mid-eighteenth century recuperation the Indian biological holocaust of the conquest era. Peruvian growth patternsremained notably stable until the (again belated) "population explosion" following World War II, despite an earlier acceleration of migration, urbanization,and mestizaje. Broad social, economic, and culturalfactorsmust have accounted forthese changes, or bettersaid, lack of change. Supporting studies of and parish-levelfertility mortality patternsare sorely needed, although they will not likely reveal uniformity across Peru's highly fragmented regionaland ethnicsocieties.28 One generalization be made, however. can Witha characteristic the half-century Peru exhibited extensive"ancien lag, regime" form of demographic growth identifiedby Nicolas SanchezAlbornoz forall of Latin America since 1700. In Peru, high ruralfertility and and low life expectancy,based on "natural" Malthusian restraints While stilldifficult possibilities,reignedlong intothenineteenth century. to assess, biological immunitiesappeared set by the late-colonial era, althoughthe incidence of epidemic disease did not sharplyabate in the nineteenth century.On the one hand, modest gains over traditional disease were reported fromvaccination campaigns in 1805-6 and the mid-1840s,but new scourges, chieflytyphoid and yellow feverin the countrysideand cholera in the towns, entered the Andes with force, On peaking withthesierranpandemics in thelate 1850s.29 theotherhand,
edited by D. Glass and D. E. C. Eversley(London: E. Arnold, 27. See Population History, in Population estimate,see R. D. Lee and R. S. Schofield,"British 1965); forthe newer British History Britain of since1700, edited by R. Floud in theEighteenthCentury,"in The Economic Press, 1981), 1:17-35. It is worthnotand D. McCloskey (Cambridge: Cambridge University evidentin provincialcomparisonsofthe1790s and 1827lends supportto ing thatthestability was based on parish records,the second on fiscalcounts. both censuses because thefirst than any single one of its 28. In general,the aggregateis likelyto have greaterreliability to provincialbuilding blocks. At this point, it is very difficult generalize support fromthe such as handfulofparish, tributary, district or studies with data on the nineteenthcentury, and Glave's "Demografiay conflicto social," and theworkof Cook's PeopleoftheColca Valley and Mario Cirdenas Ayapoma, to be citedsubseJeanPiel, Carlos Contreras,Nils Jacobsen, in quently.Such sources clearlyshow population growthmosteverywhere thelate colonial published by Sanchez-Albornozin Popularevistas era, as seen in the 1770s-1820stributary t. tionofLatinAmerica, 4.4. Birthrates usually increasesomewherebetween 1720and 1760but There were no exhibitvariable (or more unstable) patternsin the early nineteenthcentury. signs yetof decreasingmortality. Two brief we 29. Unfortunately, lack any epidemiology study of the nineteenthcentury. surveysare Macera, "Plantaciones azucareras," 195-96 (largelybased on ArchibaldSmith's account in Nils Jacobsen,"Landtenureand Societyin thePerudescriptions);and the fuller of Berkevian Altiplano:Azingaro Province,1770-1920,"Ph.D. diss., University California, demography and social change. See also ley,1982,31-37, one ofthefewstudiesthatintegrate in Sanchez-Albornoz'sdiscussion in Population LatinAmerica,120-21, as well as chaps. 4-5 forhis regionaldemographicstages. N. D. Cook also findsbroad "Malthusian"patterns;see PopulationChange in Andean Peru: ParishofYanque," in StudCook, "Eighteenth-Century
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Review Latin American Research abundance of was by Peru'sconsistently fertility abetted a relative high fact chiefly accessible land. The remarkable is that economic resources, Peru'sIncan populationlevel of some nine millionand its man-land century. densities werenot achievedagain untilfarintothetwentieth rather than from Elasticfood supplies derivedfromthese conditions in and markets productivity thiscentury a halfoflargely or expanding thus seems to ruraleconomy. Peruviandemographic growth stagnant a where thanin other partsofLatinAmerica, havebeen moreconsistent market shift dependence, falling "modern" upward(basedon deepening had and mobility) already begunbythe1850s. deathrates, enhanced demographic dividebetweenthelatecolonialand Peru'sspecific The but earlyrepublican periodsis stillnoticeable, farless pronounced. at a recovery 56 per 1000 late-colonial period experienced continuing to immunities tradithe annually, revealing trendof Andeanbiological tionalEurasian diseases(theSpanishevenhelpedwiththeir rapiddiffuand sionofsmallpox vaccination). Although sporadic droughts epidemics multiple calamigrowth after 1800, (as in 1801-1805) havemoderated may the over economic dislocations tiesensuedduring conflict independence: and migrarecruitment, political after 1810,directcasualties,military then aboutexpected population correct, Peru was tions.IfLarrea's hunch And ifso, without crisis, forfeited some200,000 "souls"to thecrisis. the until1827wouldhaveparalleled typically the Peruvian of rate expansion 90 per1000. Whatever case,themoststriking conclusion that populais the the Peruwas recovering a pace muchlikeEngland's at tionof late-colonial "take-off." demographic Following independence, during great its agrarian rate induceda quickened of121per 1000overthenext quartercatch-up before off from to 130per1000over 100 ranging century, leveling to rates Whether divideofindependence the constitutes inconthenext century. of of colonialism versusthe trovertible proof theoppression a backward of is to judgment. republic bestleft thereader's enlightened policies a free Theidea ofa late-imperial legendis hardtoswallow. black the verify Apartfrom checksalreadynoted,severalcalculations and amplify meaning the1827population the of total.One suchcalculaitself tion is regionalchange in Peru, whichlike populationgrowth until leastthe1860s.In table6, at stable appearstohavebeenremarkably intonorthern, In Peruis divided and central, southern departments. 1791 with the theIndiansouthpredominated 52.6 percent; mestizo, commerand center followed with 28.3percent; theagrarian north cial,and mining of for The new statistics 1827as wellas housed19.1percent population. a the1850censusreveal strongly colonial distribution. only The persisting
ies in SpanishAmerican Population History, edited by David Robinson (Boulder,Colo.: Westview,1981),243-70.
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Total 1,239,197
1,516,693
668,802
417,423
287,511
Sources: Table 1 and table 3. The South is defined as the departmentsof Arequipa, Puno, Cuzco, Ayacucho,and new subdivisions;the CentralcategoryincludesLima, Junin-Ancash, and Ica; theNorthis La Libertad,Piura,Amazonas, and new subdivisions. The 1791figures census. representtherectified to aAberrant trend;the 1836census is no longervalid.
anomaly emerges when including the invalid 1836 census, which natuthe with rallyunderestimated south. Peru'sregionalinertiaeven contrasts other"traditional" Latin Americancountries,such as Mexico, wheredeep transformations starteda century regionaldemographic had before.30 This pattern began to change onlyby 1862,as theguano era helped invigorate regions linked to thePeruvian centralcoast. The population of Lima itself,infused by a novel internalmigration,doubled to roughly as 120,000by the end of the guano era.31By 1876 its pull showed clearly, thePeruvian centerand south became virtually even at 38 percent-a far
30. The relationofregionalismto demographyis direct,forexample, in consolidatingthe a regionalcultural family or patterns behind stableextensivegrowth, pointoftenmade even Tutino's analysisin in European demographichistory. comparisonwithMexico, see John For to Press, 1986), From Insurrection Revolution Mexico(Princeton,N.J.:PrincetonUniversity in peripheriesgrew rapidlyin the app. C. In contrast Peru, Mexico's non-Indian (northern) to different ethnicand social courseby the nineteenth century, setting country a radically the on 1870s. Peru'srelativeregional stability also suggests thebroadesthypothesispossible about or Peruvian demographichistory:since 1700, the half-century more lag evident in initial the marpopulation recoveries,social change, and mestizaje have largelyreflected long-term ginalization of the Andean economy,relativeto the "newer" and economicallydynamic societies ofLatin America. See thesubsequent discussion ofsocial change. in figures Fuentes, 31. Miller, "The PopulationProblemofLima"; see also detailedmigration Estadi'stica Lima,625-26. The 37,000 new internalmigrants de (morethan55,000by 1865) say a greatdeal about thealleged immobility nineteenth-century populations. Internalmigraof tionwas also markedin thecentralsierra,theotherregionofvigorousexpansion duringthe laboral economia Mineros campesinos losAndes:mercado en y guano era. See Carlos Contreras, y en de campesina la sierra central, sigloxix (Lima: Instituto Estudios Peruanos, 1987),pt. 3.
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Latin American Research Review the in cryfrom traditional pattern whichmorethanhalfofall Peruvians "mancha india." eventhisdevelopment But the livedinoraround southern of mustnotbe overstated a clearresult socialchange.In largepart,it as thatsweptsouthern reflected devastating the typhoid epidemics simply somereports seemexaggerated, Perubetween1856and 1859.Although casualties(concentrated among Indians of the punas) ran as high as in this If 300,000 Cuzco, Puno,and Arequipa.32 accurate, tollis sufficient shift revealed the1862census. by to explain entire the regional the Scant census data existforpinpointing keyregionaldivide for coastand sierra. Twocontemporary estimates the1790sand between in remarkable continuity: botheras,abouta quarter 1870srevealanother in three-quarters the ofthenationlivedon thecoastand theremaining In minimal socioand respects, Peruexhibited highlands montania. other In century. 1900 the country demographic change in the nineteenth in reportthe of countries ranked lowest urbanization all LatinAmerican inhabiPeruvian townsexceeded10,000 ingdata (7.4percent). Onlyfive All tants.33 and all, theseglobally stableconditions underlay Peru'sconin sistent pattern. growth the"oldregime" test One final ofthenew1827population can figure be culledfrom of by other fiscaldocuments thetime:a tributary-ratio estimate departof ment.The first sourceis an official 1829 inventory the numbers of in pubThe Indianand castataxpayers sixdepartments. secondsource, de listsall "average"late-1820s lishedwiththe 1830Memoria Hacienda, in from pesos in everydepartment: all, 1,033,402 direct taxesexpected from contribucion the decastas, lessthan137,000 and Indiantribute, 431,784 in assortedproperty businesstaxes.This survey also revealshow and actualcollection mestizos.34 waned,particularly amongrestless quickly
32. Jacobsen,"Landtenure and Society in Azangaro," 31-39 (as reportedby Tschudi). Azangaro's population fellby about 20 percentbetween the1850 and 1862censuses, remaining stagnantuntil1876. I stillhave doubts about catastrophic global estimatescitedforthese epidemics, such as ArchibaldSmith's"one-quarter"ofthepeasants of Cuzco. Indians were usually protectedby highland dispersal patterns.The aggregatecensus data (see table 1 of thisarticle)show 10 percentdeclines in Cuzco between 1850 and 1862 (where150,000reputedly perished),28 percentin Puno, yetlarge increases in Ayacuchoand Huancavelica. 33. Calculated fromdata in "Poblacion del Peru a lo largo de un siglo." For coast-sierra breakdowns, see Larrea's estimatefor1790, "Bases para la estadistica,"540-41; and Smith, "Patternsof Urban and Regional Development," 78. By 1940 the coast held 30 percentof see population,a move towardpre-Columbian patterns. urbanization, Sanchez-Albornoz, On Population LatinAmerica, 5.13. of t. de 34. The two documentsare Ministerio Hacienda, "Razon del nuimero contribuyentes de comprendidosen los departamentos la Republica," PrensaPeruana,5 Mar. 1829; and for de averageprovincial revenues,"Estado que manifiesta debido cobrar cobradoen las contribulo y medio ... de julio de 1826a dic. 1829,"in Pando, Memoria ciones directaspor un anlo,termino de Haciendaen 1830, app. 4. An even more detailedbreakdowncan be found in "Estado de d6bitoen que se hallanlas subprefecturas departamentos porcontribuciones," de ... Tele'grafo, 13 Dec. 1828. Similaraccountsappeared in thelate 1840s:Analesde la hacienda puTblica Peru, del editedbyP. EmilioDancuart(Lima: Imp. Stolte,1903),4:49, 5:215.Itis doubtful, givenPeru'sinthat ethnic theselater terveningfiscal decay, comparative populations canbe derived from records.
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TA B L E 7 Tributary IndexEstimate Peruvian for 1826-1830 Population, Indian 1827 CensusTotals Expected Revenues Ave,1826-29a Tributaries, Population Percentages Comparisons Department (inpesos) NumbersbEstimatecComparedd (% difference) Lima Indian Casta Total taxes Junin Indian Casta Total taxes La Libertad India Casta Total taxes Puno Indian Casta Total taxes
Cuzco
73,945 86,101 261,343 130,270 104,383 246,905 129,796 84,638 217,953 212,885 13,404 225,289 264,805 47,032 317,591 128,276 41,860 176,747 94,420 54,364 157,164
14,643 21,525
25,796 26,069
25,702 21,160
42,155 3,351
52,437 11,758
Ayacucho Indian Casta Total taxes Arequipa Indian Casta Total taxes
25,401 10,465
18,697 13,591
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Sources: For an explanation of method, see text. On caste revenues, Pando, Memoria de Hacienda en 1830, app. 4, "Estado que manifiesta lo debido cobrar en contribuciones"; on tributary ratios: "Razon de contribuyentes de los departamentos," Prensa Peruana, 5 Mar. 1829; tables 4 and 8 of this article. aTotal figures in this column are expected tax revenues, not just Indian and casta tributes. bTributary numbers were calculated by dividing the expected revenues for Indians by 5.05 and that of castas by 4.00 (average tribute ratios). cThese estimates were calculated by multiplying the number of Indians by 4.84 and the number of castas by 4.15 (average family-size ratios). dFirst departmental Indian percentage is from this estimate, the second from 1827 (see table 8). ejunin and Puno differences due only to tributary ratio averaging. fRevenue figures exclude Amazonas; with Amazonas, departmental population is 270,385. gIncluding the Amazonas figure of 58,174, the total is 1,496,579. hAll population figures in column from table 4. With Amazonas figures in estimate, the total (national) difference reduces to 1.3 percent.
Thefirst hereis tocalculate task ratios family and average tributary ratesand collections over size. Head-tax variedconsiderably theseyears, as didthefamily associated unit with eachtaxpayer. and OnlyJunin Puno set and enjoya complete ofpopulation, tributary, revenue data,butJunin was also the country's and largestmestizodepartment Puno the most in As Indiandepartment. examples, Puno,indigenous taxpayers an paid 4.7 and a of average pesos in tribute, each tributary represented family each castadelivered taxof4.4 pesos for a 4.17 persons;meanwhile, 3.73 Whencombined withJunin's different the dependents. slightly figures, for twoprovinces national ratios Indiansof5.05pesos, and yieldaverage 4.84family castasaveraged pesos and a family of4.15.To 4 members; size estimate Peru'stotal ethnic theseratios thenbe divided can populations, and multiplied the earmarked each ethnic for for against revenues group eachofPeru's sevendepartments table7).35 (see
35. These ratiosare not ideal national tributary ratiosin that we do not know how well and Puno representnationaldistributions. more precisemethodwould use detailed A Junin provincialdata, whichis lacking.Puno and Junin differ from 1827 totalsin thistestdue only to theiraveraging.For the use of tributary ratiosin population estimates,see Cook, Demographic Collapse,chap. 6. In his central sierrastudy, ContrerasfindstheaverageIndian family size to have been 4.8 persons and theaveragecasta family, He also foundhighlyvariable 3.8.
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The results summarized in table 7 are consistentwith the direct 1827 population estimateforall of Peru, forits departmental totals,and forethniccomposition.Lima and Arequipa prove veryclose fitswhile all others(save Cuzco) demonstratea margin of difference only 5 to 10 of percent. Arequipa was a vital test of the new total because the direct census recordwas weakest in thefarsouth. At theleast, Peru'searlyfiscal and population data exhibitcompatibility. Overall, a tax quota yields a Peruvianpopulationof1,438,405, versusthe1827direct countof1,516,693. If one adds Amazonia (not included in the tributedocuments), the differencebetween the two estimatesis a mere 1.3 percent,a gap explicable by Peru's tinyminoritiesof white landlords, urban artisans, and black slaves. In short,Peru's 1827 population was indeed about 1.5 million.
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New insightsare also possible on the Indian population ofPeru in 1827 and beyond fromcombiningthese freshdata with a reworkingof older information. The point of departureis Kubler's The IndianCasteof Peru. This 1952 study still provides the best map into the murkylandscapes ofethnicand social change in republicanPeru. By adoptingthetax collectors' social definition "indio"and "casta," of (somewhatcontroversial) Kubler discovered that Indian majoritiesactually increased throughout much of the nineteenth century,the only era in Andean historythat halted, if not reversed, culturaland demographicmestizaje. This phenomenon is the root cause of contemporary Peru's extraordinary indigenous presence. Much qualitativeevidence now supportsthisview,forthe earlynineteenthcenturyrepresentsa period when dominantwhite societywas weakened by the stresses of economic decay,politicalchaos, and uncertainties the colonial transition. of institutional Accordingto Kubler, in 1795 Indians comprised 57.6 percent of colonial population and then between increased to 59.3 percentof the new nation in thebroad interval 1826 and 1854. Theirnumbersbegan to declineto 54.8 percentin 1876 and to some 40 percent by the mid-twentieth Kubler's disaggrecentury.36 gated regional evidence and analysis offereven richer insights. The
tributerates. See Carlos Contreras,"Estado republicano y tributosindigenas en la sierra 1989):9-44. centralen la postindependencia,"Hist6rica no. 1 (July 13, 36. For provincialanalysis, see Kubler,Indian Caste ofPeru, tt. 2-3, 9, and all maps. A major dilemma in all such analysis is how "Indians" were defined. By the few indications criteria(inconsistently managed by mayknown, early censuses used colonial-adscriptive In was ors, caciques, priests, and tax-collectors). the 1876 survey,self-identification pracwere also instructed make "delicate"ad-hocdecisionsby sightor links ticed,but surveyors to was of parentage. See Diaz, Censo generalde 1876, 25. Nowhere, unfortunately, language data collected,a major indicatorofIndian life-style.
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Review LatinAmerican Research consistency and veracitywith which the census takers defined and counted "Indians" is neverthelessalways open to question. The present study supports Kubler's findings,with some minor Table8 containsrevised 1827Indian populations and majorqualifications. provinces, by province, based on the new census data for thirty-three combinedwith some of Kubler's earliestrepublicanarchivalregisters.Of Peru's total 1.5 million population, 61.6 percent (934,816) were deemed Indians. This proportionslightlyexceeds Kubler's estimateof 59.3 perfrom1826 to 1854 (also shown by province),and centforthelong interval wider population base (all fifty-seven it is calculated on a significantly Province by province, fourteen provinces ratherthan only forty-three). zones display Indian compositionsthatdiffer 5 percentor more from by Kubler'sset,whilethreeothersreveal new data wherenone existedbefore Half of these revised (all are marked for interestedethnohistorians).37 region,however.Only Chancay, provinceswere confinedto Peru'scentral degree, and Abancay,Arica, and Parinacochas divergeto any significant The only the last shows any real shiftfromIndian to mestizo majority. basic profile, increasingIndian poputhen,is much likeKubler's: slightly lations near Lima and in the southern sierra, and modest mestizo advances in parts of Junin,La Libertad, and the hinterlandsof Arequipa. basicallyunderscores Kubler's Thus as disaggregates, new information the conclusions at the regional level, where his most telling ethnic comparisons emerge. This coincidence is not surprising,given the factthat both estimatesare based on the same type ofearlyfiscalsurveys. One notablerevisionis theprecisedate ofthenew 1827 calculation. Before the advent of independence, Peru's "Indianization" was already pronouncedor had grownmoreintense.This date should replaceKubler's vague use of the amalgam period of 1826-1854,which suggested Indian recuperationas an early republican ratherthan a late-colonialphenomenon. In part, this trendmust have reflected heightenedsense, and the of theenforcement, caste hierarchy duringthelate colonialregime,particof ularly in the aftermath the Tuipac Amaru revolt. Yet otherevidence points to real Indian demographicbuoyancy,such as the larger Indian a to familytypical of the 1820s.38Again, it is difficult attribute demothe graphicblack legend to the eve of colonialism. More important, key
In 37 Precisecomparisonsamong data in mytable 8 are difficult. severalcases (especially Cuzco and Ayacucho), republican boundary shiftsappear to be a factorin contrastwith Kubler.Two provincesshow unusual Indian majoritiesdue to conservative interpolations of totalpopulation. to zones wherechange seemed to occurbetween 1826 38. Kublermakes one attempt refine and 1854 (see maps 11-12). For late-colonialconditions affecting Indians, see JohnFisher, and in Government Society ColonialPeru (London: AthlonePress, 1970), esp. chaps. 4 and 6. For a revised (and less drastic)view ofthe demographicimpactoftheTuipacAmaru war,see Pacifico,1977), 123-29.
de rural a de del Magnus Morner, Perfil la sociedad delCuzco fines la colonia (Lima:Universidad
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TA B L E 8 Peruvian IndianPopulations, Revised according 1827Figures to Indians in 1827 9,690 10,791 12,368 10,243 16,140 10,981 617 4,754 75,584 19,380e 37,854 9,048 7,121 11,321 25,409 6,387 15,069 131,589 21,787 30,943 22,333 18,762 1,986 4,164 10,275 20,000 7,476 137,726 41,072 35,381 17,588 49,296 45,513 188,850 18,720 Percentage Percentage perKubler Percentage in 1827 (1826/54) in 1793-95 16.6 57.7 88.8 73.7 97.5 89.5 38.5 26.4 47.0 52.3 62.6 62.3 54.1 61.3 51.2 25.5 34.0 50.0 51.9 57.5 51.7? 43.6 29.6 34.6 70.8 76.6 42.6 45.3 94.6 96.8 92.9 94.0 93.1 94.3 46.8 46.8 44.6 137 95.7 96.7 93.5 87.6a n.d.b 47.3/36.9e 57.5 n.d.d 43.6 29.6 57.8d 54.3c n.d.d 43.1 n.d.b 62.3 49.la 62.7 50.1 21.9 45.7c
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Province Lima Cercado Chancay Canta Huarochiri Yauyos Santa Ica Junin Pasco Jauja Huainuco Huamalies Cajatambo Huaylas C.A./Huari ConchucosBajo
Caniete
15.5 53.8 85.2 55.7 93.3 83.6 26.2 32.1 42.4 53.9 54.5 45.2 62.9 62.2 51.3 39.1 52.3 47.7 55.7 63.5 44.9 49.2 38.0 49.2 n.d. 34.3 50.1 n.d. n.d.
Departmentaltotals La Libertad/Amazonas 1827 Cajamarca (Chota) Piura 1827 1795 Lambayeque Huamachuco K1826 K1837 Jaen Tiujillo K1850 1827 Chachapoyas e Maynas Pataz K1835 Departmentaltotals Puno Azaingaro Huancane/Puno Carabaya Chucuito Lampa Cuzco Cercado 1827 1827 1827 1827 1827
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1827 Quispicanchi 1827 Urubamba 1827 Paucartambo 1827 Paruro 1827 Abancay 1827 Calcay Lares 1832 Aymaraes K1830 Cotabambas Chumbivilcas K1830 1832 Tinta (Canas) totals Departmental Ayacucho K1830 Huamanga 1827 Huancavelica 1827 Parinacochas 1795 Cangallo 1827 Lucanas 1795 Huanta K1836 Andahuaylas 1795 Castrovirreyna K1830 Tayacaja totals Departmental Arequipa 1827 Arica(Tacna) 1895 Cercado K1843 Caylloma 1795 Camana 1795 Condesuyos 1795 Moquegua K1840 Tarapaca totals Departmental for Totals Peru
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analyticalquestion deepens as to when the tide actuallyturned toward modern mestizaje in the republic. The hiatus in data is now the halfcentury between 1827 and 1876-or beyond. A farmoreseriousdiscrepancyconcernsKubler'spresentation and interpretation national acculturation of trends.Table 9 presentsrevisions of theoverallproportionof Indians in thePeruvianpopulation from1795 through1940. Kubler's study actually omits fourteenprovinces-those thatwere lacking early republican archival data forlong-term comparisons-and thusit surprisingly coversonly a fraction Peru's population. of AlthoughKubler noted this fact,he did not warn scholarsof its possibly The most serious omission is the entiredepartmentof effect. distorting Puno, Peru's most heavilyIndian zone (in 1827, more than 94 percentof its 200,250 inhabitantsclaimed Indian status). Indeed, for1795, Kubler's studyconsiders only 68 percentof Peru's totalpopulation; forthe initial republic,less than 73 percent;for1876, 65 percent;and 67 percentof the modern 1940 census. Other critics,working directlyfromlate-colonial parish records,have verifiedKubler's regional underestimates Indian of The new data for 1827 allow full comparisons over this critical centuryand a half.Using an Indian proportionof94 percentforPuno in 1795 (150,155Indians), thenew 1827 figures-and theethnicbreakdowns published in the censuses of 1795, 1876, and 1940-yield new aggregate trendsthatdiffer Kubler'spartialones. In 1795Peru was 61.3 notablyfrom percentIndian; in 1827, 61.6 percent; in 1876, 57.9percent; and in 1940, This calculation calls into question both the notion of a 46.0 percent.40 late-colonialIndian surge and a definitive startto modern mestizaje by 1876. Settingaside more intricate questions of shiftswithinand among provinces,these aggregate proportionssuggest two trends. First,nineethnic stabilitywas striking, the great conteenth-century particularly between the 1790s and 1830s, when Indian groups remained 62 tinuity
39. Kubler should have clarified thisdefectby showing totaltabulationsof the threecensuses used (tt.4, 8, and 9). He followsthisapproach onlyforthe1795 census, theone closest to his own estimate.Also underscoringethnicdata flaws are the undercountsof the 1790s Ainercited in Sanchez-Albornoz,Populationz Latinz of suggested by theVollmer parish study, of ica, 110; and Browningand Robinson, "Origin and Comparability PeruvianData," 28-30. Indian statistics (with some errorreplication),see Thomas M. For discussions of long-term of Davies, IndianIntegration Peru (Lincoln: University Nebraska Press, 1970), 3. He sugin gests slow but genuine mestizaje by 1876. See also Magnus Mbrner,TheAndeanPast: Land, and Press, 1985),207-9. Societies, Conflicts (New York:Columbia University 40. Puno statistics from Prensa Peruana, Dec. 1828,16 Feb. 1829,and Telegrafo, 27 Dec. 27 17, againstthe156,000totalofthe1790s. The conceptof 1828,3 Jan.1829.Proportionsmultiplied "Indian" (which was never "racial") had become nebulous by the1940 census because ithad lost its older fiscalor adscriptivefunction.For a critiqueon thispoint, see JohnRowe, "The of Reviezv no. 2 (1947): 37, Distribution Indians and Indian Languages in Peru," Geographic 202-15.
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Year, Source Kubler 1795, Kubler 1826-1854, Kubler 1876, Kubler 1940, official 1795, 1795, revised 1827, tables 8 4, 1876census 1940census
Indian Sources: Caste Peru, 9, 8, 4; table ofthisarticle; tt. 8 Censo Kubler, of nacional de Peru, total 1940; revised 1795 from addition PunoandJaen of (162,200 population; 150,155 Indians). a79.1 percent the1795official of census. b68.7 of percent therevised 1795census. of c72.5 percent the1827 figures table (see 4). d65.8 of percent the1876census. e67.6percent the1940census. of f86.9 of 1795 census. percent therevised
percentof the Peruvian population. It is now inappropriateto speak of a global advance of Indian populations, although in some localities such increases did occur. That effect was misconstruedby undercounting the late-colonialIndian population by 4 percent. Similarly, is difficult it to speak ofa significantly advancingmestizajeby 1876,given thattheIndian proportionnationwidehad decreased by merely3.7 percent.Incomplete data exaggeratedthat decline. Indeed, the decrease probably lies in the marginof errorof the census. It shrinksby anotherpercentage point if one considers the impactof some 90,000 Chinese coolies broughtto Peru if of by 1876. And speaking hypothetically, one were to measure theeffect the reputed 300,000 Indian victimsof the 1850s epidemics, Peru's Indian at population would have held firm precisely62 percent.In short,priorto the War of the Pacific,historians can attributeno rise in mestizaje to social and culturalchanges. strictly None of these observations,however,deny Kubler's core insight: thatin macrohistorical terms,the nineteenthcenturyremains the great recordofEuropean encroachment and on exceptionto a half-millennium assimilationof Indian communities.In fact,the present analysis greatly 140
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Some of these implicationsmust be broached, along with their relation historical to periodization. The mostobvious issue is theessentially of social, even politicaldefinition indio.No biological (much less "racial") scheme can account forthese overarching patternsof Indian resurgence, persistence, and decline in Andean society.Clearly,it remains vital to explore the specific changes in epidemiology,fertility, and mortality, in sexuality thenineteenth-century sierraas well as anycultural ecologor ical influences underlyingthem. Until such studies are made, further analyses of demographictrends,includingthisone, remaintentative.42 Second, historians must sort out the multiplicity social, ecoof nomic, and politicalfactorsthat bolstered or weakened the integrity of Indian identity and institutions. thisregard,a broad distinction be In can drawnbetween colonial modes ofIndianness and mestizajeversus "modern mestizaje," forwant of a betterterm.Put simply,duringthe colonial era,theSpanish stateplayed a majorrolein upholdinga dual caste society throughitsjudicial, social, and fiscalimperatives, even ifreality was a lot messier.The republican state withdrewfromthe business of regulating caste categories, and a host of impersonal forces-the market,resource pressures, liberal ideology,and class-slowly began to work on Indian attitudes, and social structures.43 lifestyles, Thus the nineteenthcentury is notable not only as a break fromthe centuries-olderosion of Indian
41. Kubler himselfstressesthesocial definition Indian statusover thebiologicaldefiniof tion and (less convincingly) stiffened a informal caste hierarchy after independence. Partof this paradox-that Indians stabilized in the absence of strict caste definition the state-is by explained by elementsofchoice explored subsequently. 42. Forfragments local demographicand family of a data, see "Poblaci6n del Perui lo largo de un siglo," pt. 3, "Estadisticas vitales,"95-118; and for1876-1940,"Factoresdeterminantes del crecimiento la poblaci6n," Informe de del demogrdfico Peru. The sole detailed studies of and birthrates, morbidity, family concernLima and are foundin ChristineHunefeldt's1984 manuscript,"Esclavitud urbana y vida familiar un contextomultietnico: en Lima, primera mitaddel siglo 19"; forthe1830s, see Mario CArdenasAyapoma, "Demografiadel pueblo de Santiago de 'Cercado,"' RevistadelArchivoGeneral la Naci6n8 (1985):79-111. de 43. The social realityof caste delineation was always more complex than Spanish legal norms. For an evaluation, see HerbertS. Klein, "The State and the Labor Marketin Rural Bolivia in theColonial and EarlyRepublicanPeriods," in Essaysin thePolitical, Economic, and Social HistoryofColonialLatinAmerica,edited by Karen Spalding (Newark: University of Delaware, 1982), 95-106; on social realities,see Oscar Cornblit,"Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Peru and Bolivia," in St. Antony'sPapers,edited by R. Carr, vol. 22 (1970):9-44. As with Andean demographichistory, most trenchant the work on historical definition Indian status analyzes the conquest era. See Steve Stern,Peru'sIndianPeoples of and theChallenge SpanishConquest:Huamangato 1640 (Madison: University Wisconsin of of Press, 1982).
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teenth-century indigenous community. Overall, however,the foregoing analysis suggests two points. First,Peru's criollization priorto 1876 was nascent and belated, reflecting "ecological" (global) conditionsas much as local ones. In other words, the remarkable regional demographic stabilityevident beyond the 1850s reinforcedcolonial norms of ethnic identity fostering regional societies in which change had to occur. by the Second, in theabsence ofchange in "ancien regime"demographicbehavior,historiansshould focus on thesocial and politicalelementsof Indianmestizo status.46 Any pictureof global stasis, however,must not conceal in oftendeep-seated and subtle republican transformations the ways of Indian life. For the early republic,two specificperiodizationsand views currently dominatethinking about social change and theIndian community. The now traditional view holds thatIndians suffered immediatethreats withrepublicanism:from 1820s abolitionofpaternalistic caste distincthe tions, the liberalmid-1820sBolivarianland decrees (to privatizecommunityland use), and the suppression of traditional Indian leadership.All this legal change was allegedly followedby a wave of expropriations by ambitious white and rising mestizo landlords, the benefactorsof landdispensing caudillos. At least one historianattempted perilouslyto correlate this "neocolonialism" with the social map of nineteenth-century ethnicity.In the newest neo-Marxist formulation,the initial republic witnessed the rapid consolidation of local ruling classes ("feudal" or timewith politicalautonomyto exerttheir otherwise),armed forthe first own solutionsto the "Indian problem."47 This view is clearlymistaken,as shown by Indian persistencefarinto the republic. Historiansmighthave suspected this realityalready because Peru rapidly rescinded its initial liberalproclamationsand restoredcolonialfiscal-caste categoriesuntilthe mid-1850s,at least. Nor does genuine evidence existof aggressivemoves against Indian propertyand labor by Peru's economicallyand politically in beleaguered rulingcliques, particularly the sierra. Even on theirown ideals failed. More than paper decrees faulty terms,liberalintegrationist of "Piruvianization"were needed to cajole or coerce Indians into new lives.
46. A simpler(but unsubstantiated)thirdinference thatglobal stasis was maintainedby is higherIndian birthrates thatevenlycompensated historically consistentlosses throughmigration and mestizaje.The pioneering social approachappeared in Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz, Indiosy tributos el AltoPeru(Lima: Instituto Estudios Peruanos, 1978). en de 47. Forexamples, see JeanPiel, "The Place of thePeasantryin the National LifeofPeru in the NineteenthCentury,"Past and Present (Feb. 1970):108-33; Davies, IndianIntegration, 46 capitalista (Lima: chap. 2; ErnestoYepes del Castillo, Peru, 1820-1920: un siglodel desarrollo IEP, 1973),chaps. 1-2; and Henri Favre, "El mundo andino en tiempos de Bolivar:los Asto entre1780y 1830," RevistadelMuseo Nacional47 (1983-1985):259-71.For thestrainedanalysis ofKubler'smapping, see JeanPiel, Capitalisme agraire Pe'ou (Paris: Anthropos,1975), au 1:290-316 and 312-13.
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corporatelandholding and Indian authorities (caciques, curacas, alcaldes, and varayocs) were too disruptedby 1821 to support thiskind of indirect rule. Nor did forced tributary paymentsbring tangiblebenefits,as attestedby the irregular course ofPeru's Indian "policy."Emergingstudies suggest instead idiosyncratic adjustmentsat the community level (as in Cuzco and Puno), or by the 1840s, an activepeasant shift towardcheaper "casta" status,as typified theemergingassociativecommunities the by of Mantaro Basin.51By the late 1840s, the sudden affluence the Peruvian of treasuryfromguano all but eclipsed these tributary vestiges. Yet the resulting national abolitionofthe contribucion indigenas de representedno visiblewatershedin Indian-white relations. A thirdinterpretation, based on recentsocial history theperiod, of mightintegrate ethnictrendswiththeregion'sbroadestcurrents social of change. Specifically, this periodization mightlink delayed mestizaje to Peru's haltingpatternsof creole state-building and capitalism.In a longtermcomparative sense, thePeruvianpattern reflected largerpolitical the and economicmarginalization theAndes by theBourbonera, tempered of with dynamicIndian responses. Three discerniblestages emergehere: a prolonged post-independence stalemate; limited change between 1860 and 1880, and rapid rural transformations afterthe War of the Pacific. Such a scheme is only suggestive. Periodization must abstractfroma perplexingarrayof obscured local detail,and here ithighlights initial the developmentsbetween 1820 and 1860. During the firsthalf-century republican rule in Peru, neither of liberal decrees nor tributary status significantly affected Indian communities. Naturally isolated and shelteredby the breakdown in national politics, communications,and marketsduring the caudillo era, indigenous communitieswere left mainly to themselves. No army of local officials enteredtheir was hamlets,and thelocal hacendado reduced to first among equals. Thus Indians were freedfromthe traditional increas(or ingly intrusive)oppressions of the colonial regime, and enjoyed, if by default,a penurious respitefromthe marketpressures of emergingcapitalism.During thisperiod, manyquietlyresistedtheencroachments and appeals of Hispanic society,and few stopped or cared to stop being "Indians." Tales abound of mistis(provincialwhites) adopting Quechua ways, of puna settlements rebuildingthemselves.This trendwas, above all, a voluntaristic movement:recentstudies discernfew social blocks to This concertedwithdrawal in peasant mobility. was reflected thehopeless
51. See especiallyContreras, "Estado republicano tributo y indigena,' and Christine Hunefeldt,"Poder y contribuciones:Puno, 1825-1845," RevistaAndina7, no. 2 (Dec. 1989):367409. See also thealreadycited worksby Glave and Remyon Cuzco. I do notmean to downplay the important insightsintolocal power and ethnicarrangements arisingfrom thisnew research.
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hacendados and minerspractically vanished withindependence. Indians took to hawking their alpaca wool directlyto Arequipan merchants. Ayacucho suffered long-term the collapse of white commercialactivities, save for coca production,with its obvious dependence on the peasant economy.This trendhelped sparka dramatic resurgenceofancientethnic as politicsand autonomy, played out in theIquichana revolt the1820s.55 in Further south, historiansnow emphasize how the opening stage of the new wool export trades, which saw particularly high prices for native alpaca, was easily amenable to indigenous herding communities,who bypassed Hispanic intermediaries revived regional fairs.Recent studat ies of Cuzco followingindependence (or the Mancha India at large) belie notions of a move toward regional latifundismo.The picture at midcenturyof provinceslike Quispicanchi is instead one of villages sharing space with sundry smallholdergroups, who enjoyed littleedge in technology or resources. A particularlyrich study of Espinar (Canas), an Indian herdingzone, reveals how natives"reconquered" overwhelmingly theirpunas while cleverlyexploiting emerging wool markets in their "autonmist strategy." This area was one of dramaticlong-termIndian population growthand a magnet of flight fromnearbyhaciendas.56The town of Cuzco, a former bastion of Spanish control,continuedto shrink in size and influencethroughout nineteenthcentury.In short,Cuzthe quenlo Indianness did not arise fromenforcedisolationby monopolistic gamonales. In thecentralsierra,wheretheeminently Hispanic activity silver of miningenjoyed a comebackin thepost-independenceyears,theCerro de Pasco mines quickly came to depend on willing part-timeIndian misiglosxvi-xx(Lima: DESCO, 1986),chap. 9; Cecilia Mendez's intriguing politicalstudy, "Los campesinos, la independencia y la iniciaci6nde la repudblica el Peru," FLASCO, Quito, en 1990; and Jaime Urrutia,"De las rutas,feriasy circuitos Huamanga," Allpanchis (1983): en 21
47-64.
56. See Karen Spalding, "Class Structuresin the SouthernPeruvian Highlands, 17501920," in Land and Powerin LatinAmerica,edited by Benjamin Orlove and Glynn Custred (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980), 79-98; Nils Jacobsen,"Desarrollo econ6mico y relaciones de clase en el sur andino, 1790-1920:una replicaa Karen Spalding," Andlisis4 (MayAug. 1979):67-81; Maria Isabel Remy,"Gamonalismo: tierray poder local en el siglo xix cuzquenio,"B.A. thesis,UniversidadCat6lica del Peru, 1985); Magnus Morner,"La distribuci6n de ingresosen un distrito andino en los anios1830," Estudios Andinos13 (1977); Michael Gonzales, "Neo-colonialism and Indian Unrest in SouthernPeru, 1867-1898," Bulletin of LatinAmerican Research no. 1 (1987):5-6; and Jacobsen, 6, "Landtenureand Societyin Azangaro," chaps. 4-5. The most explicitand compellingstudyof Indian economic autonomyis Piel's "Pastoreo andino y historiademogrAfica Espinar"; foran account of a similarmide gratory withdrawal,see Henri Favre, "The Dynamics of Indian Peasant Societyand Migration to Coastal Plantationsin CentralPeru," in Land and Labourin LatinAmerica, edited by K. Duncan and I. Rutledge(Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1977),257-61. Favreis now explicitly researching"Indianization" processes in Huancavelica; see his researchreen portin Estadosy naciones losAndes,edited by J.P. Deler and Y. Saint-Geours(Lima: Institutode Estudios Peruanos, 1986),169.
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such as Cuzco and Trujillo.Their continuingflightunderlay viceroyal Peru's tardystabilizationofIndian populations. Historiansknow thatthe republican state, at least, assumed a more homogenous view of Indianness. Were the formerforasterosinformally creating or blending into fixedvoluntarycommunities?If so, was this tendencya major cause of advancingIndianness? Around Canas, thisprocess appears to have been in progress,with or withoutofficial guidance; theproportionofforastero Indians grew rapidly afterindependence, at least until 1845, when recorded distinctionsend.60 At the otherend of the spectrum,did nearwhites take advantage of independence to leave mestizo roots behind, adding to themore dichotomousethnicstructure captured in nineteenthcenturycensuses? The murkyevidence suggests overall the consolidation of more "pseudo-Indian" villages, exemplifiedin the Mantaro region, where all sorts of peasants mimickedmany of the norms of cooperativelabor and resourcesofindigenous folk,whetherout ofnecessityor advantage. This in behavioris consistentwith Andean microeconomics, which reciprocal tasks (minkas)support rationalor efficient exploitationof extensiveresources, given traditional technologies.But it is not the same as propertied communalism,thaterroneous conception of Indianness vaunted by early indigenistas. One must stress that even in the most indigenous like Puno, littlecore agricultural land was actually communally zones, worked by the mid-nineteenth owned or unlike pastoral comcentury, mons. In most cases, one wonders whethercommunalism ever domifrom nated.61Ifnothingelse, this individualismsuggests possible effects and decliningbureaucratic earlyliberaldecrees props to corporateproperty rights once embedded in the colonial regime. At the same time, historianshave detected,even among integrated hacienda residents,an which evolved into a informal spread of horizontalties of "comunalidad,"
60. See especially Glave, "Demografia y conflictosocial," app. tables and 22-24. See 51-53, 60-64, and chap. 2; and Contreras,"Estado reSanchez-Albornoz,Indiosy tributos, were stillmade in Peru's indigena," 26, 33. Distinctionsamong forasteros publicano y tributo 1830 "Memoria de Hacienda"; subsequently,theyappear veryrarely. y chap. 3, 152-55; 61. For a descriptionoffeatures,see Manrique, Mercadointerno region, as a social model, see FlorenciaMallon, "Microeconomiay campesinado: hacienda, comuniecon6micos en el valle de Yanamarca,"Andlisis4 (1978); fordetailedanalydad y coyunturas land tenure,see Jacobsen,"Landtenureand Societyin Azangaro," sis oftypesofcommunity terratemayu:sociedades 675-92. For analysis ofhorizontalties, see Nelson Manrique, Yawar nientes 1879-1910 (Lima: DESCO, 1988),esp. chap. 4; and Carlos Contreras,"Merserranas, cado de tierras sociedad campesina: el valle del Mantaroen el siglo xix,"paper preparedfor y the meetingsofthe Latin AmericanStudies Association in Miami, 4-6 Dec. 1989, 20-23. On campesino en theseissues, themostusefuleconomicmodel is thatofDaniel Cotlear,Desarrollo de social en las comunidades la sierradel Peru y los Andes: cambiotecnol6gico transformaci6n unusual specificity de (Lima: Instituto Estudios Peruanos, 1989),chap. 2. This workexhibits relationshipsamong demographic,technological, about Andean land-use and the historical and institutional change.
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(New York:PeterLang, 1987). This studypushes indigenismooriginsback to thisera but is consciouslysparse on social realities. 63. For fiscalanalysis of this limitednational scope, see Gootenberg,Between Silverand Guano,132-37.Fortheonlystudyofelite-state interactions outsideLima, see Mallon, Defense ofCommunity, chap. 2. On coastal planters and labor recruitment, JuanRolfEngelsen, see "Social Aspects ofAgricultural Expansion in Coastal Peru, 1825-1878,"Ph.D. diss., UniversityofCalifornia,Los Angeles, 1977.
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Nevertheless,thefirst tangiblesigns ofpost-colonialchange registered in the 1860s and 1870s. The pace of ruralmigrations quickened to Lima and a scattering lowland enterprises.Here and there,moribund of provincialpower holdersbegan to take more concertedinterest marin ketsand landholdings,as registered thesouth. In thissense, whites,or in those who mightpass as such, were unassimilatingfromthe folk,and withthisawakeningcame ad hoc and localized revivalsofpettylabor and racialist demands, such as "enganche."64 Strained traditionalbalances suggest the emergence of a more defensive Indianness, which in the extreme in expressed itself the "caste" explosion of Huancane in 1867.By 1876 a modestlysmallershare ofPeruvians regardedthemselvesas Indians, and regionaldemographicweightwas shifting away from Indian the south. But slowly,the social effects the guano era-the first of railroad stops, recovering commercialhaciendas, formalizedmarkets, Europeanized high culture,and its trickle new local officials-werepenetrating of profounder Peru. For the first time,economic trendswere enforcing the anti-Indianliberalismheralded in 1824, althoughtherestillwould be no PeruvianPorfiriato. By all recentaccounts,the climaxofpressureson Indian and rural communities had to wait untilafter wrenchingdisruptionsoftheWar the ofthePacific. Historiansmightponderwhythesocial and ethnicimpactof this second militarism(1879-1895) ran so much deeper than the first (1815-1845). Whatever the explanations (and there are many), by the new formsof regional developopening years of the twentieth century, ment,foreign investment, vigorouslyreconstituted provincialelites,and an operationalnationalstateall had combinedto promote rapidlyexpanding communications,government,markets,and schools. The groundwork had finally been laid fora capitalistPeru and forsuccessfulcreole time state-building.65 Massive land-grabs struckthe Andes forthe first since the centuryof conquest, most dramatically the south. Everyin withelitewealthand where,directcontrol overland became synonymous influence.Rebellions (and the ubiquitous daily signals of ruralconflict) erupted on a scale comparableonly withthoseof the1780s,includingthe reactive,millennarian"Incan" kind. There was no lack of oppression,
64. On elitemoves back to thehaciendas, see Jacobsen, "Landtenureand Societyin Azanpropiedad, podery garo," chap. 6. On local migrations,see Isabelle Lausent, Acos: pequeina economia mercado de (Valledel Chancay)(Lima: Instituto EstudiosPeruanos, 1983),chap. 3. de (Lima: Imp. On migration Lima, see AlfredoLeubel, El Peruen 1860 o sea anuarionacional to de Comercio, 1860), 266. It would be interesting know whethersuch social change folto lowed thecourse ofPeru'srailroadspriorto 1879, as was dramatically clearin Mexico. 65. This periodizationfollowsMallon, Defense Community, 2, supportedby virtually pt. of all the dozens of recentregional studies. On landed expansion, see Jacobsen,"Landtenure mayu.On social and Societyin Azangaro," chap. 6. On interior elites,see Manrique, Yawar aristoy reactions,see Manuel Burgaand AlbertoFlores Galindo, Apogeo crisisde la republica crdtica (Lima: RichayPeru, 1979),pt. 2.
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Yet tionsto produce these ethniccontinuities. at the same time,thisview points to subtle and active changes in the ways of Indian life. But such observationsare mere guesses at what is certainly the largest and leasttrodtopic in modernAndean history.
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