Alberto Flores Galindo

In Search of an Inca

Identity and Utopia in the Andes
Herausgegeben von Aguirre, Carlos; Walker, Charles F.; Hiatt, Willie

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Approaches to the Americas
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780521598613
• ISBN-10: 0521598613
• Artikelnr.: 29593617

Autorenporträt

Alberto Flores Galindo was an acclaimed historian and social critic who died in 1989 at age 40. In Search of an Inca won the prestigious Cuban Casa de las Américas Prize in 1986 and the Clarence Haring Prize from the American Historical Association in 1991. It is now in its fifth edition in Peru and has been published in Cuba, Mexico, and Italy. Flores Galindo was the author or editor of numerous other books, director of various scholarly journals, and recipient of many fellowships and honors. He received his doctoral degree from L'Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Rezensionen

'Flores Galindo, in his now-classic In Search of an Inca, traces the utopian myth that has persisted in many forms in the Andean region down to the present, inspiring uprisings, prophecies, sects, and local rituals ... [The book] follows the underground path of myth and memory and the ethnic tensions that have preoccupied Peru's greatest thinkers. It is an absorbing story that needed to be told.' Jean Franco, Columbia University