The portrait of the Inca: Aesthetics and politics in the Audiencia of Quito, 1630-1750

Abstract:

European early modern social history and for the early modern intellectual history of what may be termed the Cambridge school. It seemed to me that the historical vriting on the colonial Andes focused too narrowly on objective social structures and on demographic trends-long after these had ceased to be the major objects of French, English, German and Italian historiography-while the treatment on the part of ethno-history of the symbolic dimensions of life took an unduly cosmological approach-a mixture of" history of religions" and structuralism-which exaggerated the distance between native consciousness and colonial political and religious frameworks, reifying representations. What I found lacking was on the one hand a concern for the representations of the colonial order, and on the other hand, a contextualization of native consciousness within the disciplinary frameworks of colonialism. Although these are not …

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1990

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