Paper short abstract:

The paper, focusing on Peru 1532-1581, studies the construction of the space and the creation or extension of previous network groups and the creation of new identities in the New World framework.

Paper long abstract:

The narrative on the conquest and colonization of the new world as to be actualized by new historiographical approaches, and the network analysis seems to be an useful tool in such effort.

The paper aims to approach the construction of the juridical, economical and administrative institutions in the early colonial Peru in a twofold perspective: the Crown attempt to settle down his sovereignty and his effective control and monopoly of violence, but at the same time, the creation or extension of Iberian networks that inhabited the new institutional architectures or deal with them. The colonization and the expansion in the New World could be considered as an opportunity of extending their influence for previous groups of power as well as facilitate the creation of new networks. The case of the Peru, later vice-kingdom of New Castile and then vice-kingdom of Peru, not only is suitable to analyse the creation of new borders and spaces, but also in the acquisition of European and Iberian knowledge and cultural references, as well as rights, political thoughts, economical and merchant issues, but it's also suitable for analysing the creation of new social and local identities.