La conquista del Imperio inca a manos de un puñado de españoles sigue fascinando por lo que tiene de empresa quijotesca y desmedida. ¿Cómo pudieron Pizarro, Almagro y poco más de un centenar de hombres someter al Estado más poderoso y mejor organizado de América, capaz de poner …
Introduction -- Viracochas : ancestors, deities, and apostles -- Diseases and separatism -- Reduccion and the struggle over burial -- Strategies of coexistence -- Ayllus in transition -- The rise of the mountain spirits -- Ancestral reconfigurations in the ethnographic record.
This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of…
This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of…
This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of…