Output details
24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
University of St Andrews
Article title
Tras las huella del silencio : Potosí, los incas y Toledo
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Runa. Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Article number
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Volume number
XXXI
Issue number
2
First page of article
115
ISSN of journal
0325-1217
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article offers a new account of the discovery of the silver-mines of Potosí in 1545, by identifying the political strategies of the local Aymara federations and of Manco Inca, exiled from Cusco in the lowlands of Vilcabamba. Rather than Spanish “discovery”, we argue that it was the Inca who decided to “dis-cover” the mines to Spanish royalists to help the King defeat Gonzalo Pizarro and the rebellious encomenderos. Weaving together a mosaic of data from many little-known sources, our reading distinguishes a variety of political positions and alliances adopted by Andean and Spanish actors in a highly complex conjuncture.
