num_pages: 295
description: Emphasizing the reciprocal influences of European and Andean peoples, the contributors to this volume examine the formation of a colonial society in sixteenth-century South America. Together these eight outstanding essays by specialists in anthropology, history, art history, and literary studies are a model interdisciplinary forum in Andean and colonial studies.The authors explore the Old World background to the cultural encounter; the key political, social, and economic forces at work in shaping the Andean landscape; the transformation and hybridization of Inca symbolism; and the ways in which Andeans and Europeans came to interpret the emerging colonial society.
language: English
title: Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century
titlecomplete: Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century
ratings_count: 2
publisher: University of California Press