Based on extensive archival research, The Power of Huacas is the
first book to take account of the reciprocal effects of religious
colonization as they impacted Andean populations and,
simultaneously, dramatically changed the culture and beliefs of
Spanish Christians. Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of
Religion in the category of Historical Studies, American Academy of
Religion, 2015 The role of the religious specialist in Andean
cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the
culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder
reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists
and the colonial world that unfolded around them, considering how
the discourse about religion shifted on both sides of the Spanish
and Andean relationship in complex and unexpected ways. In The
Power of Huacas, Brosseder examines evidence of transcultural
exchange through religious history, anthropology, and cultural
studies. Taking Andean religious specialists-or hechizeros
(sorcerers) in colonial Spanish terminology-as a starting point,
she considers the different ways in which Andeans and Spaniards
thought about key cultural and religious concepts. Unlike previous
studies, this important book fully outlines both sides of the
colonial relationship; Brosseder uses extensive archival research
in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Italy, and the United
States, as well as careful analysis of archaeological and art
historical objects, to present the Andean religious worldview of
the period on equal footing with that of the Spanish. Throughout
the colonial period, she argues, Andean religious specialists
retained their own unique logic, which encompassed specific ideas
about holiness, nature, sickness, and social harmony. The Power of
Huacas deepens our understanding of the complexities of
assimilation, showing that, within the maelstrom of transcultural
exchange in the Spanish Americas, European paradigms ultimately
changed more than Andean ones.
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