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Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru 1532-1824
Paul Charney
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Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru 1532-1824 focuses on commonly overlooked institutional and social mechanisms which enabled Indians to assert themselves as a separate people in the very heart of Spain's New World Empire, the city of Lima and its hinterland. Despite being substantially outnumbered by non-Indians throughout the colonial period, the valley's Indians developed an ethnic consciousness by the skillful appropriation of aspects of Spanish culture and by salvaging some elements of the indigenous past. Paradoxically, the Indians made Spanish transplants like the religious confraternity, will-making, godparenthood, their own, which consequently provided them the means for controlling ... Read more
Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru 1532-1824 focuses on commonly overlooked institutional and social mechanisms which enabled Indians to assert themselves as a separate people in the very heart of Spain's New World Empire, the city of Lima and its hinterland. Despite being substantially outnumbered by non-Indians throughout the colonial period, the valley's Indians developed an ethnic consciousness by the skillful appropriation of aspects of Spanish culture and by salvaging some elements of the indigenous past. Paradoxically, the Indians made Spanish transplants like the religious confraternity, will-making, godparenthood, their own, which consequently provided them the means for controlling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761820697
SKU
V9780761820697
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About Paul Charney
Paul Charney is Assistant Professor of Colonial and Contemporary Latin America at Frostburg State University, Maryland.
Reviews for Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru 1532-1824
Vastly documented and impeccably researched?>
Eugene Pinero, University of Wisconson-Eau Claire
Itinerario
Charney's work supports other research on colonial indigenous society, and he makes good use of the pioneering work of Maria Rostworowski, as well as more recent scholarship on the coats and Lima. <...Charney does make a strong argument that forLima's Indians, a ... Read more
Eugene Pinero, University of Wisconson-Eau Claire
Itinerario
Charney's work supports other research on colonial indigenous society, and he makes good use of the pioneering work of Maria Rostworowski, as well as more recent scholarship on the coats and Lima. <...Charney does make a strong argument that forLima's Indians, a ... Read more