TY - BOOK
T1 - The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
AU - Brosseder, Claudia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures
of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a
complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of
the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the
dynamic interaction between religious specialists and the colonial world
that unfolded around them, considering how the discourse about religion
shifted on both sides of the Spanish and Andean relationship in complex
and unexpected ways. In The Power of Huacas, Brosseder examines
evidence of transcultural exchange through religious history,
anthropology, and cultural studies. Taking Andean religious
specialists—or hechizeros (sorcerers) in colonial Spanish terminology—as
a starting point, she considers the different ways in which Andeans and
Spaniards thought about key cultural and religious concepts. Unlike
previous studies, this important book fully outlines both sides of the
colonial relationship; Brosseder uses extensive archival research in
Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Italy, and the United States, as
well as careful analysis of archaeological and art historical objects,
to present the Andean religious worldview of the period on equal footing
with that of the Spanish. Throughout the colonial period, she argues,
Andean religious specialists retained their own unique logic, which
encompassed specific ideas about holiness, nature, sickness, and social
harmony. The Power of Huacas deepens our understanding of the
complexities of assimilation, showing that, within the maelstrom of
transcultural exchange in the Spanish Americas, European paradigms
ultimately changed more than Andean ones.
AB - The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures
of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a
complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of
the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the
dynamic interaction between religious specialists and the colonial world
that unfolded around them, considering how the discourse about religion
shifted on both sides of the Spanish and Andean relationship in complex
and unexpected ways. In The Power of Huacas, Brosseder examines
evidence of transcultural exchange through religious history,
anthropology, and cultural studies. Taking Andean religious
specialists—or hechizeros (sorcerers) in colonial Spanish terminology—as
a starting point, she considers the different ways in which Andeans and
Spaniards thought about key cultural and religious concepts. Unlike
previous studies, this important book fully outlines both sides of the
colonial relationship; Brosseder uses extensive archival research in
Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Italy, and the United States, as
well as careful analysis of archaeological and art historical objects,
to present the Andean religious worldview of the period on equal footing
with that of the Spanish. Throughout the colonial period, she argues,
Andean religious specialists retained their own unique logic, which
encompassed specific ideas about holiness, nature, sickness, and social
harmony. The Power of Huacas deepens our understanding of the
complexities of assimilation, showing that, within the maelstrom of
transcultural exchange in the Spanish Americas, European paradigms
ultimately changed more than Andean ones.
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U2 - 10.7560/756946
DO - 10.7560/756946
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SN - 9780292756946
BT - The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
PB - University of Texas Press
ER -