Subverting colonial authority : challenges to Spanish rule in eighteenth-century southern Andes / Sergio Serulnikov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serulnikov, Sergio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Katari María, Tomás, approximately 1740-1781.

Katari María, Tomás.

Aymara Indians--History--18th century.

Aymara Indians.

Aymara Indians--Wars.

Aymara Indians--Government relations.

Indians of South America--Wars--Andes Region.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Wars.

History.

Chayanta (Bolivia : Province)--History--18th century.

Chayanta (Bolivia : Province).

Andes Region.

Physical Description:

viii, 287 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This innovative political history provides a new perspective on the enduring question of the origins and nature of the Indian revolts against the Spanish that exploded in the southern Andean highlands in the 1780s. Subverting Colonial Authority focuses on one of the main -- but least studied -- centers of rebel activity during the age of the Tupac Amaru revolution: the overwhelmingly indigenous Northern Potosi region of present-day Bolivia. Tracing how routine political conflict developed into large-scale violent upheaval, Sergio Serulnikov explores the changing forms of colonial domination and peasant politics in the area from the 1740s (the starting point of large political and economic transformations) through the early 1780s, when a massive insurrection of the highland communities shook the foundations of Spanish rule.

Contents:

1 Political Legitimacy in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Andean Villages 19

2 From a Multiethnic Community to a Multiethnic Chieftainship: Florencio Lupa, Cacique of Moscari 54

3 Customs and Rules: Bourbon Rationalizing Projects and Social Conflicts in the 1770s 85

4 Disputed Images of Colonialism: Spanish Rule and Indian Subversion, 1777-1780 122

5 The Dilemmas of Self-Rule 157

6 In the Land of Heretics 186

Conclusion: Andean Political Imagination in Times of Insurgency 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-276) and index.

ISBN:

0822331101

0822331462

OCLC:

51330226