In Search of the Incas: Identity and Utopia Since the Spanish Conquest (New Approaches to the Americas) (Paperback)
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Short Description for In Search of the Incas Examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 30 June 2010
- Format: Paperback 302 pages
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- Categories: Sociology: Customs & Traditions | History Of The Americas | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780521598613 ISBN 10: 0521598613
- Sales rank: 1,312,222
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Full description for In Search of the Incas
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.
