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The People Are King - The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics (Hardcover)
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The People Are King - The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics (Hardcover)
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In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and
Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their
traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in
planned, self-governed towns modeled after those in Spain. But
rather than merely conforming to Spanish cultural and political
norms, indigenous Andeans adopted and gradually refashioned the
religious practices dedicated to Christian saints and political
institutions imposed on them, laying claim to their own rights and
the sovereignty of the collective. The People Are King shows how
common Andean people produced a new kind of civil society over
three centuries of colonialism, merging their traditional
understanding of collective life with the Spanish notion of the
comun to demand participatory democracy. S. Elizabeth Penry
explores how this hybrid concept of self-rule spurred the
indigenous rebellions that erupted across Latin America in the
eighteenth century, not only against Spanish rulers, but against
native hereditary nobility, for acting against the will of the
comuneros. Through the letters and documents of the Andean people
themselves, The People Are King gives voice to a vision of
community-based democracy that played a central role in the Age of
Atlantic Revolutions and continues to galvanize indigenous
movements in Bolivia today.
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