Domination without dominance : Inca-Spanish encounters in early colonial Peru / Gonzalo Lamana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamana, Gonzalo, 1966-

Series:

Latin America otherwise.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incas--History.

Incas.

Incas--First contact with other peoples.

Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548.

Peru.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Complicates the Spanish conquest of Peru by seeking to overturn the interpretation made by 16th century Spanish writers and modern academics that cast the Inca-Spanish encounter as a battle between two clearly defined sides,

Contents:

Introduction : situated interventions : colonial imprints, decolonial moves

Beyond exotization and likeness : alterity and the production of sense in a colonial encounter

Christian realism and magicality during Atahualpa's imprisonment

Why betting a barrel of preserves can be a bad thing to do : civilizing deeds and snags

Illusions of mastery : Manco Inca's war and the colonial normal

The emergence of a new Mestizo consciousness : an unthinkable Inca

Power as moves : a mid-1540s repertoire of flipping the coin

The end

Basic political chronology of the Spanish conquest.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-274) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822388715

0822388715

OCLC:

308707227