“Itinerary simposium about: Indigenous societies & domination systems from an ethnoshistorical perspective. Tawantinsuyu and the crisis of the colonial order”

Abstract

We have been organizing a meeting and debate space for five years dedicated to the advances and research carried out from an ethnohistorical perspective and supported by colonial history and Andean archeology that are presented continuously in a Thematic Table within the Jornadas Interescuelas/ Departamentos de Historia (Rosario 2005; Tucumán 2007; Bariloche 2009 and with a current call for Catamarca 2011). At the last meeting, held in 2009 under the auspices of the Universidad Nacional del Comahua, the first versions of the nine articles that are now published in Memoria Americana 18 (1 and 2) were presented, offering results of ongoing research that we had been discussing, debating and recovering since 2005. The articles published here are nourished by the interdisciplinarity that characterizes the ethnohistorical approach, and represent this tradition that aims to advance from joint and shared work between disciplines to approach the ethnic recognition of the Southern Andes, represented through Charcas and Tucumán. In this framework, we have for early colonial Charcas the works of Percovich, Morrone, Oliveto and Jurado and those of Quiroga, Noli, Rodríguez, Taboada and Angiorama and Castro Olañeta for Tucumán.