Hacienda y memoria: configuraciones sociales y vida cotidiana en San Gerardo (1950-1990)

Abstract

San Gerardo, located in Girón, province of Azuay-Ecuador, is a parish with many stories related to the life of the peasants of the area around the farms where they worked and lived. The local history from the people’s perspective is what is collected in this final graduation work, stories, stories, and testimony of life around the farms in San Gerardo built based on the memory of the peasants who worked there during the 50s and 90s. Through the peasants' memory, details of daily life, the employer-worker relationship, and aspects of the social configurations within three haciendas present in this area, places of memory and Agrarian Reform, are approached. How this research is intended to be carried out through a qualitative methodology that through the selection of key informants (peasants of the parish) and the interview technique will delve into individual and collective memory. It is about building a historical account based on oral tradition, where the main source interviews. Part of the history of San Gerardo de Huahualpata revolves around the organization to achieve parochialization, achieve improvements in infrastructure, works, roads, and services, as well as the protection of irrigation water. The study of the importance of agricultural cycles, festivities, and identities with the land and corn, are part of the research results