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Que sait-on aujourd'hui du plus grand empire d'Amérique ? S'étendant sur près d'un million de kilomètres carrés, le Tahuantinsuyu, nom que les Incas donnaient à leur gigantesque empire, a assuré sa domination sur plus d'une centaine de peuples, et compté neuf à dix millions de sujets avant de s'écrouler face au choc de la conquête espagnole. La dynastie des empereurs incas, demi-dieux fi ls du Soleil, autant révérés que craints, s'est alors éteinte de manière brutale et définitive. Longtemps, nous avons été tributaires de ce que les colons européens ont rapporté dans leurs chroniques. Cette version de l'histoire est à présent battue en brèche par les recherches archéologiques, et c'est une révolution des savoirs qui est en cours. Les découvertes spectaculaires des « momies des glaces » - ces enfants sacrifiés à la cime des montagnes enneigées -, l'exploration des sites du littoral péruvien, les offrandes extraites du lac Titicaca en Bolivie, les progrès de la datation radiocarbone en Équateur ou en Argentine, les recherches en Amazonie, l'apport de la paléoclimatologie et des études ADN, le déchiffrement d'une possible écriture vernaculaire codée, mais aussi la prise en compte de la question du genre et de la vision des natifs eux-mêmes : tout cela engage aujourd'hui à une redécouverte des Incas et des multiples aspects de leur étonnante civilisation. Avec une écriture vive, née de son expérience de terrain comme de ses nombreuses recherches, Peter Eeckhout nous invite à une relecture complète, aussi surprenante que stimulante, de la culture inca

Incas --- Indians of South America --- History. --- Antiquities.

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"In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish colonization such as gender subjugation, the violence enacted in the name of the Catholic Church, the role of the economy as it shifted from the encomienda system into modern industrialization, and the devastating effects of slavery, violence, and disease brought to the region by Spanish colonizers. Adamovsky also discusses Argentina's independence and territorial consolidation, the first democratic elections in 1916, military coups, Peronism, democratization and the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s, and many other facets of Argentine life up to the 2019 presidential election. Concise, accessible, and comprehensive, A History of Argentina is an essential guide to this nation"

HISTORY / Latin America / South America --- Argentina --- History. --- History / Latin America / South America --- History of Latin America --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999

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Perspectivism in Archaeology explores recurring features in Amerindian mythology and cosmology in the past, as well as distinctions and similarities between humans, non-humans and material culture. It offers a range of possibilities for the reconstruction of ancient ontological approaches, as well as new ways of thinking in archaeology, notably how ancient ontological approaches can be reconciled with current archaeological theories. In this volume, Andrés Laguens contributes a new set of approaches that incorporate Indigenous theories of reality into an understanding of the South American archaeological record. He analyses perspectivism as a step-by-step theory with clear explanations and examples and shows how it can be implemented in archaeological research and merged with ontological approaches. Exploring the foundations of Amerindian perspectivism and its theoretical and methodological possibilities, he also demonstrates applications of its precepts through case studies of ancient societies of the Andes and Patagonia.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indians of South America --- Ethnoscience --- Ethnophilosophy --- Archaeology --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Ambato Valley (Argentina) --- Antiquities.

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"This volume focuses on how Indigenous communities of the Americas have long recognized degrees of personhood within their landscapes, and its case studies show how researchers can incorporate this worldview in archaeological investigations, community relations, and interpretations"--

Indigenous peoples --- Indians of North America --- Indians of South America --- Animism --- Ethnic identity.

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"In this work, Desirée Poets posits that contemporary Brazil is a settler colony. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the book tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte-two quilombos, two Indigenous movements, and a favela-to unravel the continuities and discontinuities of Brazil's settler colonial structure. As Poets argues, settler colonialism is renewed through expectations of Indigenous and quilombola authenticity as well as through militarization, incarceration, genocide, and marginalization that continuously attempt to dispossess and eliminate Black and Indigenous peoples from the political landscape, including in its urban centers. Placing these dynamics under one analytic lens, Poets navigates how the dependent settler capitalist state has related to different Indigenous and Black groups with distinct yet interrelated effects. She thereby challenges the still-common separation of Black and Indigenous politics and peoples in policy, activism, and scholarship. Building on the work of Black and Indigenous organizers and thinkers from Brazil and beyond, she makes the case for an intersectional and transnational lens that centers the intellectual, political, and creative labor of Black and Indigenous peoples. The book foregrounds their resistances to settler capitalism and dependency. Common themes in Brazilian and Latin American studies emerge, and Poets's theoretical contributions are relevant to other countries. They also invigorate a dialogue between North America and South America. The powerful narrative will be invaluable to scholars and students of Brazil and Latin America and encourage an imagining of decolonial strategies in both hegemonic and peripheral settler colonial contexts around the globe"--

Settler colonialism --- Government, Resistance to --- Indians of South America --- Black people --- History. --- Brazil --- Race relations --- Ethnic relations