In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes (New Approaches to the Americas)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/13/2014
EAN 9780521598613, ISBN10: 0521598613
Paperback, 100 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
In Search of an 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 pre-colonial 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-Andean 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.
Editors' introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Europe and the land of the Incas
the Andean utopia
2. Communities and doctrines
the struggle for souls (central Andes, 1608–66)
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.