HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Masca, On The Other Hand, Chinchero District
21 Aug 2018
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Machu picchu (1400"s inca temple & in today"s peru) Office hours: monday 1-2 pm, wednesdays 12-2 pm murray kreiger hall (u get free tea and life advice) Colonial archives are difficult to work with because the colonizers always talk about themselves-- only one perspective (cid:862)a (cid:374)egotiatio(cid:374) a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g (cid:373)ultiple actors over eco(cid:374)o(cid:373)ic resources, cultural capital, a(cid:374)d political force(cid:863) spa(cid:374)ish e(cid:373)pire, colo(cid:374)ial, colo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373), colo(cid:374)ized. More about incorporation of cultures rather than elimination of a certain people. Argument: the inca were the ass-kickers of the andes: how the inca ruled. Used to record all the different harvest throughout the empire and where everything was and who paid tribute. Andeans are scared of the incas because they came and conquered and kicked ass. The spanish and the incas were both conquerors of the andes. The inca empire had many walls and big fortresses and roads (chinchero) Everything was baha control lmaoooooooo: hierarchy. All married andean men had to serve labor building roads, growing crops.
