People of the Volcano ：Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru

Publication subTitle ：Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru

Author： Noble David Cook  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780822389613

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822339717

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822339885

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword： Colla Indians -- Peru -- Colca River Valley (Arequipa) -- History -- Sources., Colla Indians -- Peru -- Colca River Valley (Arequipa) -- Social life and customs., Colla Indians -- Peru -- Colca River Valley (Arequipa) -- Census., Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru) -- History -- Sources., Colca River Valley (Arequipa, Peru) -- Social life and customs.

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Social structures, the domestic export and economies, and spiritual spheres within native Andean communities are key elements of analysis. Also highlighted is the persistence of duality in the Andean world: perceived dichotomies such as those between the coast and the highlands, Europeans and Indo-Peruvians. Even before the conquest, the Cabana and Collagua communities sharing the Colca Valley were divided according to kinship and location. The Incas, and then the Spanish, capitalized on these divisions, incorporating them into their state structure in order to administer the area more effectively, but Colca Valley peoples resisted total assimilation into either. Colca Valley communities have shown

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Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Preface

Part I: Foundations

Beneath the Soaring Condor

Return of the Viracocha

Crisis of the New Order

Part II: The "Republica de los Indios

Constructing an ‘‘Andean Utopia’’

‘‘República de los Indios’’: Social and Political Structure

Tribute and the Domestic Economy

Extractive Economy

Indoctrination and Resistance

Part III: The "Republica de los Espanoles"

Crisis in the ‘‘República de los Españoles’’

Epilogue: Andean Counterpoint

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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