Situating the Andean Colonial Experience : Ayllu Tales of History and Hagiography in the Time of the Spanish /
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/n...
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Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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ARC Humanities Press
2020.
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- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Illustration
- Note About the Spelling of Toponyms and Proper Names
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Oral History of Qaqachaka
- Chapter 1. Genesis in Qaqachaka
- The Chullpas and the Lord of the Clouds
- Adam and Eve
- The Red-Trousered Ant
- The Ascension to Heaven
- The Red-Trousered Ant Against the Colonial State
- Ritual Practices that Allude to Ants
- The Red Place of Birth
- Chapter 2. The First Ancestors of the Place
- The Arrival of the Inkas
- The Original Place Called "Qaqachika" and its Mountains
- The First Cycle of Tales: In Which the Place of Qaqachika is Formed in a Sunless Twilight
- The Second Cycle of Tales, Concerned with the Religious and Political Mit'a
- Various Ancestors, Various Origins
- Qaqachaka is Born from Money, for a Pot of Gold and Silver
- Chapter 3. The Mit'a, the Mines, and Slavery
- The Vicuña with a Broken Leg
- Working as Mitayos
- The Route to the Red Mountain of Potosí
- Mitayos and Llamas
- The Libations on the Journey
- A Commentary on Mit'a and Mita
- Chapter 4. A Gentleman's Agreement between Literate Caciques
- Ayra Chinche and the Red Snake
- The Leg in the Stirrup
- The Local Caciques Become Boundary Makers
- The Meeting in Darkness Between Ayra Chinche and Juana Doña Ana
- Juana Doña Ana Meets the Seven Ancestors and then the Sun is Born
- The Role of Juana Doña Ana in the Rites of Possession of Qaqachaka
- Some Key Documents Held by the Title-Bearers
- Chapter 5. Settling the New Place of Qaqachaka and its Ayllus
- How the New Place was Populated
- The Sons-In-Law who Married into Women from Qaqachaka
- Etymologies of the Names of Qaqachaka's Minor Ayllus
- New Ties to the Valley Lands
- Chapter 6. Some Clarifications about Juana Doña Ana and her Kinsfolk
- Juana Doña Ana and her Predisposition for Scandalous Entanglements
- Inka Mariya and the Red Snake
- Juana Doña Ana Snatches the Title Deeds from an Unknown Man
- The First Caciques of the Place, According to Doña Bernaldita Quispe
- Inka Mariya Kicks Away the Thermal Waters
- The Two Sisters and the Tan Señora of Notes of Money
- The Chullpa Sister and the Death of the Chullpas
- The Birth of the Sun and the Origins of Weaving
- Part II. The Colonial Caciques in Oral and Written History
- Chapter 7. The Caciques of Qharaqhara and Quillacas-Asanaque
- The Caciques of the Qharaqhara Federation
- Who was Ayra Chinche?
- The Deeds of Don Ayra Chinche
- Interlude: The Andean Rules of Succession
- The Caciques of the Quillacas-Asanaque Federation
- Who Was Takimallku Astiti and, Besides, the Choquecallatis?
- The Deeds of Taqimallku Astiti
- Takimallku Astiti and the Composición de Tierras by Jose de la Vega Alvarado
- Who was Bartolome Astete?
- Who was the Ancestor Llanquepacha?
- The Deeds of the Llanquepachas