Huarochiri

An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule

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ID8073201
AuthorsKaren Spalding (corresponding author)
Year1984
Publication date1984-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byHuarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule, Benjamin Keen, 1985
Reviewed byHuarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule, Benjamin Keen, 1985
VenueHuarochiri (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503621299
OpenAlexW4206192753
Open LibraryOL51659124M
ISBN9781503621299
LanguageEN
Citations received308

This is the first attempt at synthesis of the varied data—ethnographic, historical, archaeological, and archival—on the impact of the Spanish conquest and Spanish rule on Indian society in Peru. Although the Huarochirí region is a source of most of the case histories and illustrative material, this is not a narrow regional study but a major work illuminating one of the two centers, along with Mexico, of settled Indian civilization and Spanish occupation in America. The author delineates the basic relationships upon which local Andean society was based, notably the kinship relations that, under the Incas, made possible the production of great surpluses and their efficient distribution in a region where markets were totally unknown. She then traces the impact of the Spanish colonial system upon Andean society, examining how the Indians responded to or resisted the political structures imposed upon them, and how they dealt with, were exploited by, or benefited from the Europeans who occupied their land and made it their own. This is the story of a social relationship—a relationship of inequality and oppression—that endured for centuries of Spanish rule, and inevitably led to the collapse of Andean society

Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Computer Science · Indians of south america, culture

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