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The World of Tupac Amaru - Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru (Paperback, 2)
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The World of Tupac Amaru - Conflict, Community, and Identity in Colonial Peru (Paperback, 2)
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Equally concerned with the lives of ordinary Andean people and
sweeping historical processes, this book unveils a complex colonial
world of indigenous villagers and their Spanish neighbors from the
ground up and in the process examines one of the most significant
indigenous uprisings in the Americas. This rebellion, known by the
name of its leader, Tpac Amaru, ignited in colonial Cuzco near the
former Inca capital during the late eighteenth century (1780-83)
and spread rapidly throughout much of the Andes. Led by the
descendant of the last Inca ruler, the rebellion severely disrupted
the colonial economy and proved to be the most serious challenge to
Spanish authority in Latin America since the sixteenth century.
Focusing on the Cuzco provinces of Quispicanchis and Canas y
Canchis, which were the wellspring of the rebellion, Ward Stavig
examines the issues, values, and themes central to the lives of
ordinary Andean women and men-senses of identity, conceptions of
sexuality and gender, the threat of crime, the value placed on
work, competition for land and its relation to cultural identity,
and the impact of forced labor. Stavig interweaves an intimate and
richly textured portrait of the lives of Native villagers with an
analysis of economic and political colonial institutions to show
not only how Native peoples in Cuzco made sense of their lives but
also how their strategies of survival shaped colonial society. Ward
Stavig is an associate professor of history at the University of
South Florida, Tampa.
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