| #4769852 in Books | University of New Mexico Press | 2009-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.57 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 249 pages | |||"Karen Vieira Powers's well-written and impeccably organized book focuses on migration as a colonial survival strategy. In the course of collecting and reviewing the historical data from archives in Spain and Ecuador, she explains the unusual patterns of Quito
This account of the native peoples of Ecuador in the sixteenth and seventeenth century shows how they not only resisted, adapted, and survived Spanish colonization but reinvented themselves as a culture. Offered are both a revisionist treatment of the demographic history of Amerindian Ecuador and a clearer understanding of North Andean ethnogenesis. Powers's study of Andean population movements in the Audiencia of Quito from 1535 to 1700 shows that native migrations a...
You easily download any file type for your device.Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State in Colonial Quito | Karen Vieira Powers. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
