In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521598613)

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 precolonial past as an era of harmony, justice, and prosperity and the foundation for political and social agendas for the future. In this award-winning work, Alberto Flores Galindo highlights how different groups imagined the pre-Hispanic world as a model for a new society. These included those conquered by the Spanish in the sixteenth century but also rebels in the colonial and modern era and a heterogeneous group of intellectuals and dissenters. This sweeping and accessible history of the Andes over the last five hundred years offers important reflections on and grounds for comparison of memory, utopianism, and resistance.

Author: Alberto Flores Galindo
ISBN-10: 0521598613
ISBN-13: 9780521598613
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2010
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2010