People of the volcano : Andean counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru / Noble David Cook, with Alexandra Parma Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Noble David.

Contributor:

Cook, Alexandra Parma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colla Indians--Peru--Colca River Valley (Arequipa)--History--Sources.

Colla Indians.

Colla Indians--Peru--Colca River Valley (Arequipa)--Social life and customs.

Colla Indians--Peru--Colca River Valley (Arequipa)--Census.

Manners and customs.

History.

Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru)--History--Sources.

Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru).

Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru)--Social life and customs.

Peru--Colca River Valley (Arequipa).

Genre:

Census data.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Summary:

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru's southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley-and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon-to the city of Arequipa and its airport, eight hours away. Noble David Cook and his co-researcher Alexandra Parma Cook have been studying the Colca Valley since 1974, and this detailed ethnohistory reflects their decades-long engagement with the valley, its history, and its people. Drawing on unusually rich surviving documentary evidence, they explore the cultural transformations experienced by the first three generations of Indians and Europeans in the region following the Spanish conquest of the Incas.

Contents:

Beneath the soaring condor

Return of the Viracocha

Crisis of the new order

Constructing an "Andean utopia"

"República de los Indios" : social and political structure

Tribute and the domestic economy

Extractive economy

Indoctrination and resistance

Crisis in the "república de los españoles"

Epilogue: Andean counterpoint.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-309) and index.

ISBN:

9780822339885

0822339889

9780822339717

0822339714

OCLC:

74987603