Alberto Flores Galindo

In Search of an Inca

Herausgeber: Aguirre, Carlos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521591348
• ISBN-10: 0521591341
• Artikelnr.: 33132310

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