Negotiated Settlements

Andean Communities and Landscapes under Inka and Spanish Colonialism

Bibliographic Data

ID7526388
AuthorsSteven A Wernke (0000-0001-8180-9896, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages392
Publication date2013-02-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNegotiated Settlements (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity Press of Florida (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5744/florida/9780813042497.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236595989
Open LibraryOL27584343M
ISBN9780813042497
LanguageEN
Citations received53

This book presents a spatially integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical examination of how successive colonial Inka and Spanish colonial rule in the Andes was locally experienced and transformed through the sociocultural interfaces of community and landscape. It traces the development of two late prehispanic ethnic polities—the Collaguas and Cabanas—and investigates how their incorporation into the Inka and Spanish empires related to the transformation of community organization, land use and land-form patterning, state institutions, and the physical configuration of the landscape of the Colca Valley of highland Peru. Through analysis of archaeological settlement and land-use patterns, it first tracks how Inkaic and Spanish forms of imperial rule grafted onto local structures of community and landscape. Through GIS-based reconstruction of early colonial-era land-tenure patterns, Negotiated Settlements shows how ancient forms of land use persisted despite successive Inkaic and Spanish colonial occupations. Findings from the only excavations of an early Spanish doctrinal complex in the highland Andes document how a Spanish model of urban order was inserted in a small rural Andean hamlet in the early post-conquest era, even as the effectiveness of that model depended on its resonance with Inkaic precedents. Through its emplaced perspective, Negotiated Settlements moves beyond both top-down and resistance-oriented approaches to show how colonial projects were substantially modified in their actual manifestation in daily life, producing new improvised social orders

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Empire · Ethnology · Geography · HAMLET (protein complex · Human settlement · Settlement (finance · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American history and culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Indians of South America · Landscape archaeology · Peru · Social conditions

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