A Bullet for Señor Cobos
Anarchy in the Galapagos
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33579Keywords:
Historical Archaeology, Plantation, Firearms, Anarchy, Penal ColonyAbstract
From 1878-1904 the El Progreso Hacienda was run by Manuel J. Cobos on the island of San Cristóbal in the Galapagos. Cobos was shot by his own workers in 1904. This paper explores the relationship between anarchy, banditry, and modern firearms in this unique rural setting at the turn of the 20th century.
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DeKay, D. 1871. In Relation to Occurrences at Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Mexico. San Francisco, CA: no publisher.
El Telégrafo. 1904. Los Crímenes de Galápagos (Archipiélago de Colón). Guayaquil, Ecuador: Imp. de “El Telégrafo”.
Ellickson, R. C. 1989. “A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 5 (1): 83–98.
Epler, B. 2013. Galapagos: A Human History. Campbell, CA: FastPencil.
Flexner, J. 2014. “The Historical Archaeology of States and Non-States: Anarchist Perspectives from Hawai'i and Vanuatu.” Journal of Pacific Archaeology 5 (2): 81–97.
Grant, J. A. 2007. Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Harrison, H. F. 1952. Winchester: The Gun That Won the West. Washington, DC: Combat Forces Press.
Hobsbawm, E. J. 1969. Bandits. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Idrovo, H. 2005. Galapagos: Footsteps in Paradise. Quito, Ecuador: Libri Mundi.
Igler, D. 2013. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
IMACS. 1992. Intermountain Antiquities Computer System. Salt Lake City: Department of Anthropology, University of Utah. Available online: http://anthro.utah.edu/labs/imacs.php
Laforcade, G. and K. R. Shaffer, eds. 2015. In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813061108.001.0001
Langer, E. D. 2002. “The Eastern Andean Frontier (Bolivia and Argentina) and Latin American Frontiers: Comparative Contexts (19th and 20th Centuries).” The Americas 59 (1): 33–63. https://doi.org/10.1353/tam.2002.0077
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____. 2011. Historia humana de Galápagos: nuevas investigaciones. Quito: Academia Nacional de Historia.
Leeson, P. T. 2007. “An-Arrgh-Chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization.” Journal of Political Economy 115 (6): 1049–1094. https://doi.org/10.1086/526403
Löwy, M. 2000. “From Captain Swing to Pancho Villa: Instances of Peasant Resistance in the Historiography of Eric Hobsbawm.” Diogenes 48 (189): 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/039219210004818901
Páez, A. 1986. El Anarquismo en El Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador: INFOC.
Sater, W. F. 2007. Andean Tragedy: Fighting the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1djmdh2
Scott, D. D., ed. 1989. Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
____. and R. A. Fox. 1987. Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle: An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Serra, E. 1886. “Viaggio di Circumnavigazione della ‘Vettor Pisani’ (Comandante G. Palumbo) Anni 1882-1885.” Rivista marittima [Rome] 19: 281–306.
Published
2019-01-26
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Anarchy and Archaeology Forum - OPEN ACCESS
How to Cite
Jamieson, R. W. (2019). A Bullet for Señor Cobos: Anarchy in the Galapagos. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 5(2), 268-275. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.33579
