Introduction : situated interventions : colonial imprints, decolonial moves -- Beyond exotization and likeness : alterity and the production of sense in a colonial encounter -- Christian realism and magicality during Atahualpa's imprisonment -- Why betting a barrel of preserves can be a bad thing to do : civilizing deeds and snags -- Illusions of mastery : Manco Inca's war and the colonial normal -- The emergence of a new Mestizo consciousness : an unthinkable Inca -- Power as moves : a mid-1540s repertoire of flipping the coin -- The end -- Basic political chronology of the Spanish conquest
Summary
Complicates the Spanish conquest of Peru by seeking to overturn the interpretation made by 16th century Spanish writers and modern academics that cast the Inca-Spanish encounter as a battle between two clearly defined sides,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and index
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