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Reinvention and History Making in Huarochiri

A Local Narrative of Colonialism in the Peruvian Andes
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Within just two generations, communities in the Peruvian Andes experienced conquest by the Indigenous Inka Empire (1450-1532 CE) and the European Spanish (1532-1821 CE), leading to three centuries of colonial subjugation. Reinvention and History Making in Huarochiri is an archaeological and historical rendering of the experience of the people of Huarochiri (Lima, Peru) and their interactions with successive waves of colonialism. Using archaeological and historical datasets and spatial modeling, this book centers on local memory and experience throughout colonized landscapes as the thread that connects the long history of Indigenous engagement with expanding colonial empires and the emergent Peruvian nation. The author builds on Andean epistemological frameworks to argue that in the face of drastic sociopolitical changes, the people of HuarochirI turned to their own history. They created analogies and shared spaces between local and Inka landscapes and materiality and incorporated written representations and ideas of settled lives to validate their claims. This exciting new work moves the field of Andean archaeology into conversations with decolonial and decolonizing methodologies and shows how Indigenous communities captured and made sense of their long history, reframing colonialism as a local experience.
Carla Hernandez Garavito is a Peruvian archaeologist and an assistant professor in the anthropology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Drawing on diverse lines of evidence, this book offers a fascinating example of how local people in HuarochirI made sense of their experiences under Inka and Spanish colonialism. Through the concept of ch'ixi-capturing the paradox of both/and-Hernandez Garavito explores the incorporation of imperial and global processes into local reinventions of history and community."-Lee Panich, author of Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California "Reinvention and History Making in Huarochiri offers an important intervention in the archaeology and history of the colonial Andes by centering local Indigenous interactions, strategies, and perspectives. The result is a reconstruction of colonial HuarochirI life that is dynamic and varied, from the ongoing role of kin-based differentiation and conflict to the appropriation of Catholic churches as a tool for continued resistance. Throughout, the reader sees Indigenous Huarochiri residents as central protagonists in the making of colonial history, settlement, institutions, and culture."-Lisa Overholtzer, McGill University
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