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Indigenous Migration and Social Change: The Foresteros of Cuzco, 1570-1720
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One of the classics of Andean history. Best for specialists.
by: Anonymous    On: 1999-03-07

Ann Wightmans study of the bishopric of Cuzco argues, with a generation of other scholars of the Andes like Stern, Spalding and Sempat, that ethnic divisions within Spanish indigenous communities would slowly be replaced by social class-based relations to land and the Spanish economic system. A solid piece of history; broad and mostly engaging. Ideal for students of colonial Latin American history, the Andes, or historians interested in indigenous identity.