In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes

by Alberto Flores Galindo and Flores Galindo Alberto

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In Search of an Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century until the late twentieth century. It stresses the recurrence of the 'Andean Utopia', that is, the idealization of the pre-colonial past as an era of harmony, justice, and prosperity and the foundation for political and social agendas for the future. In...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521598613

ISBN13:9780521598613

Release Date:June 2010

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:306 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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