Situating the Andean Colonial Experience

Ayllu Tales of History and Hagiography in the Time of the Spanish
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64189-404-3
Verlag: ARC Humanities Press

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America, 700-1700

Re-situating Andean colonial history from the perspective of the local historians of ayllu Qaqachaka, in highland Bolivia, this book draws on regional oral history combined with local and public written archives. Rejecting the binary models in vogue in colonial and postcolonial studies (indigenous/non-indigenous, Andean/Western, conquered/conquering), it explores the complex intercalation of legal pluralism and local history in the negotiations around Spanish demands, resulting in the so-called “Andean pact.”
The Qaqachaka’s point of reference was the preceding Inka occupation, so in fulfilling Spanish demands they sought cultural continuity with this recent past. Spanish colonial administration, with its roots in Roman-Germanic and Islamic law, infiltrated many practices into the newly-conquered territories. Two major cycles of ayllu tales trace local responses to these colonial demands, in the practices for establishing settlements, and the feeding and dressing of the Catholic saints inside the new church, with their forebears in the Inka mummies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnold, Denise Y

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Hagiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note about the spelling of toponyms and proper names
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The oral history of Qaqachaka
Chapter 2. The first ancestors of the place
Chapter 3. The mit’a, the mines and slavery
Chapter 4. A gentleman’s agreement between literate caciques
Chapter 5. Settling the new place of Qaqachaka and its ayllus
Chapter 6. Some clarifications about Juana Doña Ana and her kinsfolk
Part II: The colonial caciques in oral and written history
Chapter 7. The caciques of Qharaqhara and Quillacas-Asanaque
Part III: Qaqachaka marka
Chapter 8. From the history to the hagiography of Qaqachaka
Part IV: The saints appear
Chapter 9. Tata Quri: “Father Gold”
Chapter 10. The construction of Qaqachaka’s church
Chapter 11. Tata Quri wants a family
Part V: The religious practices of Qaqachaka marka
Chapter 12. The origins of the ritual practices around the church
Chapter 13. Let’s sing to the gods
Chapter 14. Converting the saints into persons
Some conclusions
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of themes
Index of toponyms

Über Autor(innen)

Arnold, Denise Y
Denise Y. Arnold is an Anglo-Bolivian anthropologist and expert in Andean ethnography, who divides her time writing and teaching between London and La Paz.