Nicholas Robins

Genocide and Millennialism in Upper Peru (eBook, PDF)

The Great Rebellion of 1780-1782

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring one of the least studied genocides in post-conquest South America, Robins calls into question many of the central assumptions currently held by genocide scholars. Victims of genocide usually lack the organization and weaponry to battle their enemies. During the 1780-1782 Great Rebellion in Peru and Upper Peru (now Bolivia), however, the Indian revolutionaries faced the better-organized and armed loyalist army. Whereas genocidal policies are usually characterized by centralized leadership, the Great Rebellion was highly fragmented and confederational in nature, undercutting the widely-held assumption that only the State is capable of committing genocide. The Rebellion is one of the rare cases when the victims of genocide emerged victorious.

Focusing on the events occurring in the region south of La Paz, Robins examines how a native millennial movement evolved into an Indian-led attempt at genocide, dealing an unprecedented challenge to Spanish rule in the Americas. In the eyes of the rebels, this revolt fulfilled prophecies of an inevitable, divinely assisted, and long-awaited return of native rule. Just like at the dawn of the colonial period, this new era was to be born of pachacuti, or cataclysm. But this time the Spanish interlopers and their culture would be targeted for destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313012334
• Artikelnr.: 37810703

Autorenporträt

NICHOLAS A. ROBINS is Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University, and Executive Director of Fundación Amistad, East Hampton, NY. He is the author of El Mesianismo en los Andes: La Rebelión de Tupac Amaru en la Provincia de Ororu, Alto Peru, 1781 (1997), and Mesianismo y Semiotica Indigena en el Alto Peru: La Gran Rebelion de 1780-1782, (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Historiography of the Great Rebellion Colonial Control and
Indian Consciousness in 18th Century Peru and Upper Peru The 1780-1782
Rebellion in Peru and Upper Peru The Futility of Litigious Resistance: The
Cataris and the Rebellion in Chayanta and Yamparaez Provinces Conflict and
Ethnic Contradictions in the Provinces of Paria, Oruro, and Carangas The
Insurgency Erupts in the Provinces of Cochabamba, Misque, Chichas, Lipes,
and Porco Prophecy in Action: Messianism and Genocide in Upper Peru
Semiotics of Rebellion Andean Antinonies: Ambivalences and Contradictions
in the Rebellion Conclusion Appendix 1: Map of Towns Involved in the Great
Rebellion of Upper Peru Appendix 3: Chronology of the Great Rebellion
Glossary Bibliography Index