Histories of colonial Latin American mining have cemented the image of a scientifically backward society whose pursuit of easy wealth sacrificed the lives of indigenous and African miners in places like Potosí. By examining a midseventeenth-century mine dispute between an Andean woman and a Spanish man, this article suggests how legal archives can reveal indigenous women’s contributions to the history of colonial silver. It also provides an appendix with one hundred cases of indigenous, creole, and Spanish women miners, refiners, and managers in Alto Perú, 1559–1801, suggesting how women of different socioeconomic and technical backgrounds participated in the silver industry.

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安第斯殖民地的女性、男性和采矿的法律语言

拉丁美洲殖民地采矿的历史巩固了科学落后社会的形象，该社会追求轻松的财富牺牲了波托西等地的土著和非洲矿工的生命。本文通过研究 17 世纪中叶一名安第斯妇女和一名西班牙男子之间的矿山纠纷，提出法律档案如何揭示土著妇女对殖民白银历史的贡献。它还提供了一个附录，其中包含 1559-1801 年在阿尔托秘鲁的 100 个土著、克里奥尔和西班牙女矿工、精炼厂和经理的案例，表明了不同社会经济和技术背景的女性如何参与白银行业。