History 751Dr. Ana María Presta
Studies in Latin American History
Winter Quarter, 2008
Office: 239 Dulles Hall
Office Telephone: 292 4638
Class Hours: Wednesday 3:30 to 5:18, 28 UH
Office Hours: Thursday 3:30 to 5:00 and by appointment
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Course Descritpion
Different interpretations can be recognized within the historiographic production on Colonial Andean Studies. These interpretations rely on the theoretical and modeled applications of different paradigms applicable to analyze Western, African, and non-mercantile social formations that show a high level of agricultural development and cultural and political complexity as well.
This seminar approaches, analyzes, and deconstructs a selection of that historiographic production by highlighting the relationship between the texts and contexts of history building in order to learn about the main literature produced in the field and focused on a diverse number of topics and problems.
Course Requirements
I. Grades are based on class participation (35%), one book review (20%) no longer than 5 pages, and a historiographical essay (45%) of ten to fifteen pages. The book review must be submitted by February 13 and may be written on any book or set of articles read for the class. The topic for the historiographical essay will be chosen in consultation with the instructor, and it is due on March 5.
II.Class assignments will be discussed every week as an introduction to the pertinent literature. The assignments will be available on the web. Members of the class are expected to read, present, situate historiographically and criticize a book or a series of articles chosen from the list provided on the syllabus. Since there is plenty of bibliography on each topic, students are expected not to choose the same book for discussion. Exceptions could be made when materials are not available at OSU Library.
III. Class attendance is mandatory. Additional readings will be assigned to the student who for any reason misses more than one class. An extra book review will complete the assignment.
Suggested Background Readings
Kenneth J. Andrien, Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture and Consciousness Under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825
Peter Bakewell.A History of Latin America
Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson.Colonial Latin America
John C. Chasteen.Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
Pedro Dávalos y Lissón,La primera centuria: causas geográficas, políticas y económicas que han detenido el progreso moral y material del Perú en el primer siglo de su vida independiente, Vol. II:
-----Vol. III:
Guillermo Francovich. El pensamiento boliviano en el siglo XX
The Guaman Poma website
Marvin Harris, The Rise of Anthropological History, a history of theories and culture
Enrique Finot. Nueva Historia de Bolivia
Herbert S. Klein. Bolivia: the Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Society
Historia General de América LatinaUNESCO, chapters and index per volume at
Orin Starn, Carlos Ivan de Gregori and Robin Kirk. The Peru Reader, History, Culture, Politics
William Stein. “Rethinking Peruvian Studies: De-Essentializing the Andean”, in Cyberayllu, An Electronic Review, 1998.
The Cambridge History of Latin America
The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America
Gary Urton, TheKhipu Database Project
Schedule of Class Topics and Reading Assignments
January 9Course presentation, initial discussion of main topics and expectations
January 16Evolutionism and Positivism
The search of a scientific research method. Facts, careful research, and narrative. The accumulation of sources and its voluminous results. Biographies and civilized heroes, the fortress of global polities: the Inca Empire.
Class Assignment
Emile Durkheim, What is a Social Fact? In Anthropological Theory ed by R. Jon McGee and R Warms, 84-91
Herbert Spencer, The Social Organism, in Anthropological Theory ed by R Jon McGee and R. Warms, 11-40
Reading Assignment
William Prescott[1847],History of The Conquest of Peru; with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Inca.Several Editions and in:
January 23 Indigenism
The antagonistic traditions and cultures: Spanish vs Indigenous Andean Culture. The Andean “Community” as the center of the Indigenous life.
Class Assignment
Efraín Kristal, The Andes Viewed From the City, Introduction: Indigenismo and Politics
Luis Valcarcel, “Tempest in the Andes” in The Peru Reader
Reading Assignments
Alcides Arguedas, Raza de Bronce. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988 y otras ediciones ó
Jose Maria Arguedas, Deep Rivers, Spanish original: Los Ríos Profundos
-----Works
------Selections
-----Todas las Sangres
-----Short Stories, Selections
------The pongo’s dream in The Peru Reader
Carlos Arroyo Reyes, “Entre el incaísmo modernista y Rumi Maqui: El joven Mariátegui y el descubrimiento delindio” En:
Manuel Gonzalez Prada, “Our Bedouins”
------“Priests, Indians, Soldiers, and Heroes” in The Peru Reader
Manuel Gonzalez Prada. Biografía por José Carlos Mariátegui y Nuestros Indios en:
Jorge Icaza, Huasipungo Spanish version
Id.,
------Huasipungo, English version, Translated from the original Spanish by Mervyn Savill
------Huasipungo. The villagers, a novel.Authorized translation [from the expanded 1953 version] and introd. by Bernard M. Dulsey. Foreword by J. Cary Davis
Clorinda Matto de Turner, Aves sin Nido
Josefa Salmón, El espejo indígena
Luis Alberto Sanchez, La Polémica del indigenismo
January 30Ethnohistory
A field within or a discipline itself? Sustantivism, Functionalism and Structuralism
Class Assignment
Bruce G. Trigger. “Ethnohistory: Problems and Prospects” in Ethnohistory V. 29 ners. 1-4 (1982)
Kark Polanyi, “The Economy as InstitutedProcess” in Trade and market in the Early Empires; Economies in History and Theory, edited by Karl Polanyi, Conrad M. Arensberg, and Harry W. Pearson, 243-270
Supplementary Assignments
- Bernard Knapp ed. Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory
Marshall Shalins, Stone Age Economics, Chapter 5
Elmar R. Service, Origins of the State and Civilization, Chapters 3-4
Marcel Mauss, excerpts from The Gift In Anthropological Theory ed by R. Jon McGee and R Warms, 104-116
Giorgio Alberti and Enrique Meyer. Reciprocidad e intercambio en los Andes, Ch. 1
John V. Murra, “Current Research and Prospects in Andean Ethnohistory” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Spring 1970), pp. 3-36.
Reading Assignments
Terence D’Altroy, The Incas
------Los Incas
George Collier et.al. The Inca and AztecStates
Catherine J. Julien, Reading Inca History
John V. Murra, Frank Salomon, Thierry Saignes, and Tristan Platt chapters in Anthropological History of Andean Polities
John V. Murra, Economic Organization of the IncaState
------La organizacion economica del estado inca
------“Andean Societies before 1532 (Bibliographical Essay)” in The Cambridge
History of Latin America Vol. 1. Spanish version in Historia de America Latina I
------“On Inca Political Structure” in Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracies or in Comparative Political Systems
-----“Rite and Crop in the IncaState”in Culture and History
------“The Limits and Limitations of the “Vertical Archipelago” in Andean Ecology and Civilization
------“Cloth, Textile, and the Inca Empire” in The Peru Reader complete version in American Anthropologist 4 (1963): 710-728
Susan A. Niles, The Shape of Inca History
Martti Parssinen, Tawanstinsuyu(English version)
------Tawantinsuyu: el estado Inca y su organización política (also in e-book format IFEA)
Franklin Pease G. Y. and W., TaylorViolence, resistance, and survival in the Americas : Native Americans and the legacy of conquest
Susan Ramirez, To Feed and be Fed
María Rostworowski, Conflicts on the coca fields
------The coastal Indians of Peru
-----Costa Peruana Prehispanica
------Curacas y Sucesiones
------Ensayos sobre historia andina
------History of the Inca Realm
------Historia del Tawantinsuyu
------Pachacamac y el Señor de los Milagros
John H. Rowe. “Inca Culture at the Time of the Spanish Conquest.” Handbook of South American Indians, Vol. 2 or
Frank Salomon, Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas
February 6Structuralism
From how to categorize the world to patterns of human thought that produce those categories. Kinship, myth, and religion. Towards an understanding the structure of human cognition
Class Assignment
I The Structuralist Method, II. Structure and Structuralism and Structural Anthropology and History in Sturucturalism, A Reader
Roland Barthes, Historical Discourse in Sturucturalism, A Readeror “Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives” in Culture, Ideology and Social Process. A Reader
Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology in Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History ed. By R. Jon McGee and R. Warms, 330-347
Reading Assignments
Xavier Albó, comp. Raíces de America: el Mundo Aymara
Brian Bauer, The Sacred Landscape of the Inca. The Cusco Ceque System
Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne, “The aymara space: urco and uma” in Anthropological History of Andean Polities
------La Identidad Aymara. Aproximación Histórica
------et. al. Tres reflexiones sobre el pensamiento andino
Pierre Duviols, La lutte contre les religions autochtones dans le Pérou colonial
------Cultura Andina y Represión
Franklin Pease G. Y., Del Tawantinsuyu a la Historia del Perú
------El dios creador andino
Henrique Urbano, Wiracoya y Ayar
------La extirpación de Idolatría en el Perú
------y Pierre Duviols, Fabulas y Mitos de los Incas
Nathan Wachtel,The Vision of the Vanquished: the Spanish Conquestof Peru Through Indian Eyes, 1530-1570
------La vision de los vencidos. Los indios del Peru frente a la conquista española
------“Men of water…” in Anthropological History of Andean Polities
------Sociedad e Ideología
R. Tom Zuidema, Inca Civilization in Cuzco
------La Civilizacion Iinca del Cuzco
------The Ceque System of Cuzco
------Inca Cosmos in Andean Context
February 13
Neo-evolutionism, Socialism, and Marxism
From social stratification to class structure. The ideological character of knowledge. Class consciousness and social change.
Class Assignment
Maurice Godelier, “Infrastructures, Societies and History”, Current Anthropology 19:4 (Dec 1978): 763-771
------To Be a Marxist in Anthropology
Jose Carlos Mariategui, “Reflections” in The Peru Reader
Reading Assignments
Karl Marx, Pre-capitalist Economic Formations
Carlos Sempat Assadourian, “Exchange in the EthnicsTerritories between 1530 and 1567: The Visitas of Huanuco and Chucuito in Ethnicity, markets, and migration in the Andes : at the crossroads of history and anthropology
------“String Registries: Native Accounting and Memory According to the Colonial Sources in Quilter and Urton, Narrative threads: accounting and recounting in Andean Khipu
------“Agriculture and Land Tenure” in The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America, Victor Bulmer-Thomas, John H. Coastworth y Roberto Cortés Conde. Vol. 1, Chapter 8
------Modos de Producción, capitalismo y subdesarrollo en AmericaLatina
------El Sistema de la Economía Colonial. Mercado interno, regiones y espacio económico
------“La producción de la mercancía dinero en la formación del mercado interno colonial. El caso del espacio peruano, siglo XVI”, in Ensayos sobre el desarrollo económico de México y América Latina (1599-1975), Enrique Florescano comp.
------Transiciones hacia el Sistema Colonial Andino
Louis Baudin, A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru
------El Imperio Socialista de los Incas
Heinz Dieterich, Sobre el modo de producción entre los Incas: un análisis histórico-materialista
Waldemar Espinoza Soriano, Modos de Producción en el Imperio de los Incas
-----Los Incas: economía, sociedad y estado en la era del Tawantinsuyu
Jürgen Golte, “The Economy of the IncaState and the Notion of the AMP” inThe Asiatic mode of production: science and politics
Brooke Larson, Colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia: Cochabamba, 1550-1900 (1988)
Jose Carlos Mariategui, Art, Revolution, and Decadence in The Oxford book of Latin American essays
------Seven interpretive essays on Peruvian reality
------Siete ensayos de interpretacion de la realidad peruana
------The Anti-Imperialist Point of View in Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the present
------The Indigenous Question in Latin America in Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the present
------The Latin American Socialist Revolution in Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the present
------The Heroic and Creative Meaning of Socialism in Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the present
------Prologue to Tempest in the Andesin Marxism in Latin America from 1909 to the present
------Selections
------Correspondence
Alfred Metraux, The Incas inPeople and issues in Latin American History
Alfred Metraux, The Incas
------Los incas
Karen Spalding, Huarochiri. An Andean Society Under Spanish Rule
Steve J. Stern, Peru’s Indians Peoples and the Challenge of the Spanish Conquest
Enrique Tandeter, Coercion and market: silver mining in colonial Potosí, 1692-1826
------Coacción y Mercado
February 20Dependency Theory
The external dependency of “lo Andino”. Socio-economic indigenous challenges and ruptures after the Spanish domination.
Class Assignment
Tulio Halperín Dongui, “Dependency Theory and Latin American Historiography”. Latin American Research Review 17 (1982): 115-130.
Stern, Steve J. “Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective of Latin American and the Caribbean”. American Historical Review Vol. 93 Ner. 4 (October 1988): 829-872. “Comments on Stern’s Critical Text” by Immanuel Wallerstein, Id., 873-885 y Reply: “Ever More Solitary” by Steve J. Stern, 886-897.
Reading Assignments
Jeremy Adelman comp., Colonial legacies: the problem of persistence in Latin American history
Ferdinand Braudel, Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism
Fernando H. Cardoso, Current theses on Latin American development and dependency: a critique
Fernando H. Cardoso y Enzo Faleto, Dependency and development in Latin America
Julio Cotler, “La mecánica de la dominación interna y del cambio social en el Perú.” En Jose Matos Mar y otros. Perú Problema, 153-197. Lima: Editorial Moncoloa, 1968 and several editions
Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
------Capitalismo y Subdesarrollo en AmericaLatina
**Gilbert M. Joseph, Revolution from Without(2nd. Edition Duke University Press)
-----Revolución desde afuera
John Lynch, Spain Under the Habsburgs Vol.II (specially Ch. VII-VIII)
Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America
------La herencia colonial de América Latina
------Silver, Trade, and War: Spain in America in the making of Early Modern Europe
------Plata, comercio y guerra: España y América en la formación de la Europa moderna
------Apogee of Empire
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the Modern World Economy in the Sixteenth Century
------The Modern World System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1650-1750
------The Modern World System III: The Second Era of Great Expanison of the Capitalist World Economy, 1730-1840s
February 27Gender Studies
A politically compromised social history. The Marxist influence and the post-Marxist debate. The interaction between class, race, ethnicity, and gender.
Class Assignment
Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, Witches in The Peru Reader
Eleanor Leacock, Interpreting the Origins of Gender Inequalities: Conceptual and Historical Problems In Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History ed. By R. Jon McGee and R. Warms, 429-444
Marisol de la Cadena, “Women are More Indian” in Ethnicity, markets, and migration in the Andes : at the crossroads of history and anthropology (Spanish version in Revista Andina)
Supplementary Assignment
Karen Viera Powers, Conquering Discourses of “Sexual Conquest” of Woman, Language and Meztizaje CLAR 11:1 (2002): 7-32
Kathryn Burns, Colonial Habits
Colonial Latin American ReviewVol. 9 No. 2 (December 2000)
Kimberley Gauderman, Women’s Lives in Colonial Quito
Karen Graubart, With Our Labor and Sweat
Olivia Harris, To make the earth bear fruit : essays on fertility, work and gender in highland Bolivia
------and Kate Young, Antropología y feminismo
Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow, Sex and violence : issues in representation and experience
Maria Emma Manarelli, Inquisición y mujeres : las hechiceras en el Perú durante el siglo XVII
Jane Mangan, Trading RolesIrene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
Susan M. Socolow The Women of Colonial Latin America
Marcia Stephenson, Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets
Nancy Van Deusen Between the Sacred and the Wordly
------The souls of purgatory : the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús / Ursula de Jesús
Karen Viera Powers, Women in the Crucible of Conquest
March 5Post-marxismo, Post-structuralism and Post-etnohistory. Paradigms in crisis: From the Socialist Utopia to the Andean Utopia. Hegemony andcounter hegemony. From Reciprocity to Moral Economy, From the Vanquished to Subalterns.
Class Assignment
Antonio Gramsci in Culture, Ideology and Social Process
Steve Stern, “Introduction”, Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World
Orin Starn, “Rethinking the Politics of Anthropology. The Case of the Andes.” Current Anthropology 35:1 (Feb 1994): 13-38
Supplementary Assignment
Marisol de la Cadena, “De utopias y contrahegemonías: el proceso de la cultura popular.” Revista Andina 8:1 (Cusco 1990)
Reading Assignments
Thomas A. Abercrombie, Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People
------Caminos de la memoria en un cosmos colonizado: Poética de la bebida y la conciencia en K'ulta
Manuel Burga, Nacimiento de una utopia. Muerte y resurreccion de los incas
Marisol de la. Cadena, Indigenous Mestizos, The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
Alberto Flores Galindo, Buscando un Inca
------The rebellion of Tupac Amaru in The Peru Reader, 147-156
Jurgen Golte, Repartos y rebeliones
Richard Foz and Orin Starn, Between Resistance and Revolution
Ana María Lorandi, Spanish king of the Incas : the epic life of Pedro Bohorques
------De quimeras, rebeliones y utopías
David Nugent, Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935
Brooke Larson,Cochabamba 1550-1900 2nd. Edition of Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation, Duke UP, 1998
------Capturing Indian Bodies
------Trials of Nation Making
------“Explotación y economía moral en los Andes del Sur Andino: hacia una reconsideración crítica” in Reproducción y transformación de las sociedades andinas, siglos XVI-XX
Sergio Serulnikov, Subverting colonial authority: challenges to Spanish rule in eighteenth-century southern Andes
------Conflictos sociales e insurrección en el mundo andino
Ward Stavig, The world of Túpac Amaru : conflict, community, and identity in Colonial Peru
Steve Stern, Resistance, rebellion, and consciousness in the Andean peasant world, 18th to 20th centuries
------Rebelión, resistencia y conciencia campesina en los Andes, siglos XVIII-XX.
------Shining and other Paths
Sinclair Thomson, We alone will rule: native Andean politics in the age of insurgency
Mark Thurner, From TwoRepublics to One Divided
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