Andean journeys
Subtitle: migration, ethnogenesis, and the state in colonial Quito
By: Karen Vieira Powers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- Ecuador -- Quito (Audiencia) -- History.; Quito (Audiencia) -- Population -- History.; Ecuador -- History -- To 1809.; Quito (Audiencia) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Demographic chaos: Spanish invasion and Andean migration; title: Fleeing toward the enemy: seventeenth-century migration patterns; title: Colonial state formation and the politics of Andean demography; title: Migration and the reproduction of the cacicazgo; title: Decline of the cacicazgo and the reconstitution of Andean society; title: Conclusion.