El Inca Garcilaso y la constitución de la “nación indiana” en el siglo XVII

Abstract

In the following pages I will refer to the transfer of literate knowledge, such as Inca Garcilaso’s proposal on the Inca past, to the sphere of political activism and the legislative dispute in the constitution of an “Indian nation” in the Andes in the 17th century. Starting from the Royal Commentaries and the ocean of petitions, allegations, memorials, letters, and other documents that numerous caciques presented to the crown during those years and until the 18th century, I will examine how this “transfer of knowledge” operates in different ways and serves as a strategy of resistance and at the same time of accommodation in the long dispute to defend and reinvent certain collective identities