Privatization of Property, Wealth, and Inequality in the Jujuy "highlands" (Argentina), 1870-1910

The main purpose of this article is to measure and explain the variations in the rural real estate wealth distribution levels in the regions of Puna and la Quebrada de Humahuaca, in the province of Jujuy, between the 1870s and the 1910s. We begin with a single indicator of wealth, private property of land, to precisely identify the privatization wave, a process that sought to make private property and hegemonic, legal, and legitimate right. This implied counteracting other property rights in practice and encouraging, through various mechanisms, a new distribution of wealth.