In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the histo…
In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the histo…
"The core of the research presented in this volume seeks to explore and re- evaluate many of the influential factors which contributed to fundamental discrepancies in accepted interpretations of Inca history. Essential to this is the view that an important part of the problem le…
"The core of the research presented in this volume seeks to explore and re- evaluate many of the influential factors which contributed to fundamental discrepancies in accepted interpretations of Inca history. Essential to this is the view that an important part of the problem le…
"The core of the research presented in this volume seeks to explore and re- evaluate many of the influential factors which contributed to fundamental discrepancies in accepted interpretations of Inca history. Essential to this is the view that an important part of the problem le…
"The core of the research presented in this volume seeks to explore and re- evaluate many of the influential factors which contributed to fundamental discrepancies in accepted interpretations of Inca history. Essential to this is the view that an important part of the problem le…
A fascinating resource on the evolution of the Inca Empire and, in particular, the creation of chronology and genealogy of the Inca dynasty. The work argues that the Incas, both as an ethnic group in the Cuzco region and as an empire, lasted a lot longer than presently thought.
"Informed by Gloria Anzaldúa's and José Carlos Mariátegui's work, as well as by Andean cosmology, Omar Rivera turns to Inka stonework and architecture as an example of a "Cosmological Aesthetics." He articulates ways of sensing, feeling and remembering that are attuned to an aes…
1. Introduction: Decolonizing Aesthetics Part I: Cosmological Aesthesis: Stone and Light -- 2. Elemental Rhythms: Cosmological Thinking and Epistemologies of Resistance -- 3. Cataclysms: Visible Rhythms and the Cosmic Past Part II: Racial Embodiment: Metamorphic Spatio-Temporali…
"From pre-Columbian Inca stone architecture, through colonial paintings and rituals, and continuing in 20th- and 21st-century Andean photography and painting, Omar Rivera uncovers a lineage of conceptions of cosmologies as they have been expressed aesthetically in Andean philoso…
