In search of an Inca : identity and utopia in the Andes / Alberto Flores Galindo ; edited and translated by Carlos Aguirre, Charles F. Walker, Willie Hiatt.
Flores Galindo, Alberto.; Aguirre, Carlos, 1958-; Walker, Charles F., 1959-; Hiatt, Willie.
2010
F3429.3.S6 F5813 2010 (Mapit)
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Title In search of an Inca : identity and utopia in the Andes / Alberto Flores Galindo ; edited and translated by Carlos Aguirre, Charles F. Walker, Willie Hiatt.
Author Flores Galindo, Alberto.
Uniform Title Buscando un inca. English
ISBN 9780521591348
0521591341
9780521598613 (pbk.)
0521598613 (pbk.)
1805410008
9781805410003
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description xxix, 270 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number F3429.3.S6 F5813 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 985/.02
Summary "In Search of the Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century until the late twentieth century. It stresses the recurrence of the "Andean utopia," that is, the idealization of the precolonial past as an era of harmony, justice, and prosperity and the foundation for political and social agendas for the future. In this award-winning work, Alberto Flores Galindo highlights how different groups imagined the pre-Hispanic world as a model for a new society. These included those conquered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century but also rebels in the colonial and modern era and a heterogeneous group of intellectuals and dissenters. This sweeping and accessible history of the Andes over the last five hundred years offers important reflections on and grounds for comparison of memory, utopianism, and resistance"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Aguirre, Carlos, 1958-
Walker, Charles F., 1959-
Hiatt, Willie.
Series New approaches to the Americas.
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1. Europe and the land of the Incas: the Andean utopia
2. Communities and doctrines: the struggle for souls (central Andes, 1608-1666)
3. The spark and the fire: Juan Santos Atahualpa
4. The Tupac Amaru Revolution and the Andean people
5. Govern the world, disrupt the world
6. Soldiers and montoneros
7. A republic without citizens
8. The utopian horizon
9. The boiling point
10. The silent war
11. Epilogue: dreams and nightmares.

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