Capoche, Potosi and Coca
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.1988.i182-183.207Abstract
Citing an unpublished report by the well-known Potosi miner Luis Capoche, the article refutes traditional interpretations concerning the decline in the consumption of coca in Potosi from the early years of the seventeenth century. It was not a question of market contraction because of demographic decline and the change in dietary patterns (extension of wheat bread and wine), but of profound cultural change, and modifications in the use of stimulants by the population of the mine fields, associated with the emergence of a new generation which was more accustomed to the work in mines, had greater economic possibilities, and was probably more integrated in colonial markets.
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