Inca Colonial Encounters and Incorporation in Northern Argentina

ACUTO, F.A.; LEIBOWICZ, IVÁN

The Oxford Handbook of the Incas

Oxford University Press

Lugar: New York; Año: 2018; p. 334 - 354

This chapter discusses Inca rule over Northern Argentina from a landscape perspective, analyzing the politics of space of Inca imperialism. For the indigenous peoples of this rather large region of the South Andes, this process of colonial encounter entailed their forced relocation, the imposition of an Inca landscape overlapping the native one, the intrusion and remodeling of some of their towns and villages, and the seizure of their sacred places and shrines. Through this strategic intervention and reshaping of the native landscape, the Incas sought to construct a new socio-spatial order that served them to set the relationships with their subjects, to spread their ideology, and to redefine theinteraction with supernatural entities.