Title:	A Geography of Hard Times
Authors:	Pérez-Mejía, Ángela
Keywords:	Andes Region—Description and travel
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	State University of New York
Description:	This document of rebellion lends itself well to analysis as testimony to the indigenous mentality toward the end of the colonial period.3 Here I want to point out only two of its salient aspects. The first is that Túpac Amaru’s manifesto is, in my opinion, a map in which the descendant of the Incas attempts a reconstruction of his ancestors’ empire from its center, Cuzco, while using names that would be recognizable to the Spanish crown. Demarcating the territory, he declares himself, by the grace of God, not only Inca but “King of Perú, Santa Fé, Quito, Chile, Buenos Aires, and the continents of the Southern seas, Duke of La Superlativa, Lord of the César and the Amazon, with dominion over the Gran Patití.” The objective of this “oral map” is the generation of a geographic discourse of territorial re-appropriation which, although it has little to do with the cartography of South America that we would recognize, recalls the Mapa Mundi sketched by Guamán Poma de Ayala, which embodied not only an Inca geography but a system of knowledge of time and space anterior to European cartography.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/50227
ISBN:	0-7914-6014-2
Appears in Collections:	Geography

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