Domination Without Dominance - Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru

Informationen zum Autor Gonzalo Lamana Klappentext Complicates the Spanish conquest of Peru by seeking to overturn the interpretation made by 16th century Spanish writers and modern academics that cast the Inca-Spanish encounter as a battle between two clearly defined sides, Zusammenfassung Offering an alternative narrative of the conquest of the Incas! this title examines and shifts away from the colonial imprint that still permeates most accounts of the conquest. It focuses on questions of sub-alternization! meaning-making! copying! and exotization! which proved crucial to both the Spaniards and the Incas. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Situated Interventions: Colonial Imprints, Decolonial Moves 1 1. Beyond Exotization and Likeness: Alterity and the Production of Sense in a Colonial Encounter 27 2. Christian Realism and Magicality during Atahualpa's Imprisonment 65 3. Why Betting a Barrel of Preserves Can Be a Bad Thing to Do: Civilizing Deeds and Snags 97 4. Illusions of Mastery: Manco Inca's War and the Colonial Normal 125 5. The Emergence of a New Mestizo Consciousness: An Unthinkable Inca 159 6. Power as Moves: A Mid-1540s Repertoire of Flipping the Coin 193 7. "The End" 227 Basic Political Chronology of the Spanish Conquest 231 Notes 233 Glossary 249 References 251 Index 275

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gonzalo Lamana
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.12.2008
• EAN: 9780822342939
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4293-9
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges