Identity as a means of subordination: Political-anthropological research into the history of haciendas in Chile’s central valley [La identidad como medio de subordinación: Investigación político-antropológica sobre la historia de las haciendas en el valle central de Chile]

This article provides a political and anthropological interpretation of the pre-modern tributes and gifts used by Chile‘s haciendas to hire workers. It then goes on to explain how this system was transformed into an ideology and world view for the landholding class and was subsequently adopted natio