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

by Alberto Flores Galindo and Flores Galindo Alberto

Book Overview

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"