Alluvium and Empire: The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast

by Parker Vanvalkenburgh

Alluvium and Empire uncovers the stories of Indigenous people who were subject to one of the largest waves of forced resettlement in human history, the Reducci n General. In 1569, Spanish administrators attempted to move at least 1.4 million Indigenous people into a series of planned towns called reducciones, with the goal of reshaping their households, communities, and religious practices. However, in northern Peru's Za a Valley, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081653263X
• ISBN13: 9780816532636
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"