ANTISUYU : AN INVESTIGATION OF INCA ATTITUDES TO THEIR WESTERN AMAZONIAN TERRITORIES

AUTOR(ES)

Cristiana Bertazoni Martins

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

When considering the Inca Empire, there is a great disproportion in the amount of investigations between the well-researched Andean side and the scarcely studied Amazonian side. The latter region was named by the Incas as Antisuyu and its inhabitants, Antis. Classical understanding of the two regions was until very recently based on an unbalanced view of Incas and Antis where the former was seen as representative of a highly developed civilisation, while their Amazonian neighbours were characterised as less complex groups of nomads. This dichotomy, whose genesis can be traced back from early colonial times, has now been challenged thanks to the emergence of a new picture of Amazonian Indians which has been emphasising both the complexity of the inhabitants of the Amazon as well as the ways in which they interacted with their heterogeneous environment. With this new image emerging, the reassessment of an old problem, that of the interaction between Incas and Antis, is required in order to shed some much needed light on a barely studied subject. This dissertation (re)addresses the relationship established between the Incas and the Antisuyu from a historical perspective. Thus, in the first part of this dissertation, we shall investigate how the Antisuyu was perceived from three different angles: the Inca themselves, colonial chroniclers and contemporary scholarship. The second part will be dedicated to a systematic analysis of two key Andean historical documents (Runa Yndio and Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno), in order to verify the Incasperception of the Antisuyu according to these sources; as well as on the study of the Quechua play Apu Ollantay, the visual material found in Inca colonial qeros and the Peruvian cult of Qoyllur Riti in an attempt to investigate whether the perception of the Antisuyu originated during the Inca period can be identified in later sources and whether or not it has been perpetuated during colonial and contemporary times.

ASSUNTO(S)

amazônia ocidental antisuyu arqueologia pré- colombiana história pré-colombiana arqueologia arqueologia inca pre-columbian studies inca archaeology incas

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