Abstract

The work presents the peasant woman singer as the center of the mingaco and of the festivities of threshing and harvesting fruits and vegetables, emphasizing her figure as an essential component of peasant sociability. The historical conditions that strengthened its emergence as a social type are analyzed, it is related to the culture of the mingaco, analyzing this practice from the spaces of sociability that it implied, and the continuity of certain values and practices present to date through a temporary counterpoint, in which sources from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are understood through the stories of female singers interviewed by renowned national researchers.