Mita - Mita (English spelling)

Japanese: ミタ - みた(英語表記)mita
Mita - Mita (English spelling)

A system of conscription of indigenous labor in Peru, a Spanish colony in the 16th century. It corresponds to the repartimiento in Mexico. Mita is a Quechua word that originally referred to the corvée system used in the Inca Empire for the construction of public roads and other such tasks. Each indigenous community provided a certain percentage of adult labor per year through their chief, and the Spanish colonists employed them in mines, farms, and other places. Although wages were paid, the workload was extremely heavy, which contributed to the rapid decline in the indigenous population. The mita became the basis of the private wealth of Spanish colonists, but it declined due to its inefficiency and was replaced by a direct employment system under the hacienda (large farm).

[Kinichiro Harada]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

16世紀、スペインの植民地であったペルーにおける原住民労働力の徴用制度。メキシコにおけるレパルティミエントrepartimientoに対応する。ミタとは、本来はインカ帝国における公道建設などのための賦役をさすケチュア語である。原住民の各共同体は、首長を通じて年間に一定比率の成人労働力を供出し、スペイン人入植者は彼らを鉱山、農場などで使役した。賃金は支給されたが、労働量が著しく過重で、原住民の人口激減の一因となった。ミタはスペイン人入植者の私的な富の基礎となったが、その非能率性によって衰退し、アシエンダ(大農場)のもとでの直接雇用制にとってかわられた。

[原田金一郎]

出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

<<:  Mita

>>:  Sleet - Sleet

Recommend

Brackets - Brackets

〘Noun〙 A type of Chinese confectionery served on t...

Book of the Dead - Shishanosho

The Book of the Dead is a religious book that was ...

Ostyak - Ostyak

→Hunty Source : Heibonsha Encyclopedia About MyPed...

Kurushima Matabee

A leader of the Sonno Joi faction in the Choshu d...

Afonso V

1432‐81 King of the Abis dynasty of Portugal. Reig...

Asia Wind - Ashiafū

…All the politicians of this era were excellent o...

Cargo man - Carrotan

…The subject of a Chinese painting. It is also ca...

Le Bourget

A town in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in nort...

Orthogonal transformation

A mapping that maps a plane or space onto itself ...

Dance - Lost

〘 noun 〙 = mai (dance) ② ※ Ukiyo-zoshi, Danshoku-d...

Kagawa lacquerware

Lacquerware produced mainly in Takamatsu City, Kag...

Hourglass - Sandglass

Fine sand is placed in a narrow eight-shaped cont...

Ushikichi Nakae

A Chinese scholar and thinker in the Taisho and S...

Seitaro Kubota

Social worker. Born in Okayama Prefecture. Gradua...

Adelaide - Adelaide (English spelling)

It is the capital of the state of South Australia...