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Mit'a (Quechua pronunciation: [ˈmɪˌtʼa]) [1] [2] was a system mandatory labor service in the Inca Empire, as well as in Spain's empire in the Americas. [3] Its close relative, the regionally mandatory Minka is still in use in Quechua communities today and known as faena in Spanish.
Juanita García Peraza also known as "Mita" (June 24, 1897 – February 21, 1970) was the founder of the Mita Congregation, a christian denomination with Puerto Rican origins which is described in Melton's Encyclopedia of Protestantism. When Peraza died, the Senate of Puerto Rico closed their offices for three days in her honor.
Mitma was a policy of forced resettlement employed by the Incas.It involved the forceful migration of groups of extended families or ethnic groups from their home territory to lands recently conquered by the Incas.
Mita or MITA can refer to: Mita (name) Mit'a or mita, a form of public service in the Inca Empire and later in the Viceroyalty of Peru; Mita, Meguro, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan; Mita, Minato, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan; Mita Dōri, a road in Tokyo, Japan; Mita Elementary School, a school in Tokyo, Japan
Collective reciprocal labor may be structured in three ways: The first was the ayni, which served to assist members and families of the society in need; the second was the minka, or collective effort for the good of the whole community, and included the construction of public works; the mita, or tribute charged to the Inca, was the third, and ...
With the New Laws of 1542, the repartimiento was instated to substitute the encomienda system that had come to be seen as abusive and promoting of unethical behavior. The Spanish Crown aimed to remove control of the indigenous population, now considered subjects of the Crown, from the hands of the encomenderos, who had become a politically influential and wealthy class, with the shift away ...
The Mita Congregation (Spanish: Congregación Mita) is a Christian denomination with headquarters in Puerto Rico. The congregation has chapters in the United States , Canada , Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Chile , Panama , Costa Rica , Mexico , El Salvador , Italy and the Dominican Republic .
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (2nd ed.). Gale. pp. 107– 108. ISBN 978-0684314433. Simpson, Leslie Byrd Simpson, The Encomienda in New Spain: The Beginning of Spanish Mexico (1950) Yeager, Timothy J. (1995). "Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labour Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America".