Invaders as ancestors [electronic resource] : on the intercultural making and unmaking of Spanish colonialism in the Andes / Peter Gose.

By:

Gose, Peter

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Anthropological horizonsPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2008 2010)Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 380 p. : ill., map)ISBN:

9781442688407 (electronic bk.)
1442688408 (electronic bk.)

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invaders as ancestors.DDC classification:

980/.013

LOC classification:

F2212 .G68 2008eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction -- Viracochas : ancestors, deities, and apostles -- Diseases and separatism -- Reducción and the struggle over burial -- Strategies of coexistence -- Ayllus in transition -- The rise of the mountain spirits -- Ancestral reconfigurations in the ethnographic record.

Summary: "In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways in which Andeans converted conquests into relations of kinship and obligation. They worshipped Christianized and racially 'white' spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship bonds with the Andeans by adhering to strict rules of racial separation. Gose goes beyond the usual colonial resistance narratives, describing instead a creative form of transculturation under the agency of the Andeans. Invaders as Ancestors is a fascinating account of one of the most unusual transcultural encounters in the history of colonialism."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In this work, Peter Gose demonstrates the ways in which Andeans converted conquests into relations of kinship and obligation. They worshipped Christianized and racially 'white' spirits after the Spaniards invaded, though the conquering Spaniards prevented actual kinship bonds with the Andeans by adhering to strict rules of racial separation. Gose goes beyond the usual colonial resistance narratives, describing instead a creative form of transculturation under the agency of the Andeans. Invaders as Ancestors is a fascinating account of one of the most unusual transcultural encounters in the history of colonialism."--Jacket.