Conflictos

1. " Modelo general de la valentía y el salvajismo

monteros, agregados, desacomodados. Jíbarosbárbaros “barbaric”, savage”, and “uncivilized new men.” entered Europe’s imagination pr—guajiros ecisely as this zone of civiliza-tional tension, first between “cannibalistic” and “warlike” landholding as a means to structure a society of “haves” and “have-nots” in which the notions of savagery and unsettledness might set deep roots. a cattle economy centered on very big, open-grazing ranches called hatos (“a el uso y sin propiedad,” Mercedes Emphasis on the eighteenth century is warranted because it was then that the forces of commerce heightened underlying social conflicts and made possible the crystallization of the multiple dimensions of peasant identity which would prevail for two centuries or more cordillera. Visita 30 vecinos, Visitando la Isla he hallado que había gran necesidad de hacer otro pueblo más de los que había, casi en el riñón de la Isla, como por recoger a más de 30 vecinos que hallé derramados y muy lejos de poblado, sin iglesia, ni clérigos, ni oir misa en todo el año, ni recibir los sacramentos de la Iglesia y finalmente como salvajes, aunque españoles de nación casi todos. Véase esto, que entiendo será negocio de que Vuestra Majestad será servido y la tierra aprovechada.9 Mercado had run into a group of people, white or nearly so, whom he expected to be socially advanced, given their ancestry, but clearly were not. Something about life in the colony had turned these people’s norms of proper society upside down. relaciones de visitas coameños make an eye-catching case. Nothing seemed more persuasive than to describe the Puerto Rican scene as a wild rusticism bordering on chaos cabildo desacomodados (literally, land-less people) and agregados or arrimados (hangers-on, or those who lived on someone else’s land in exchange for labor services). The third term, jíbaro, which likely grew of the elites’ derision of rural culture, was also added to the list, perhaps at a slightly earlier stage; presumed inclination to vagrancy, i.e., their unwillingness to work for the wages offered under the discipline exacted. They enacted or subscribed to a multitude of vagrancy laws. Reglamento de Jornaleros señor de agrego monterías

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