The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru (Historical Archaeology in South America)

249 Pages·2022·9.721 MB·English

by  Di Hu

THE FABRIC OF RESISTANCE
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTH AMERICA
Series Editors
Pedro P. Funari and Jacob J. Sauer
Editorial Advisory Board 
Réginald Augier
Lúcio Menezes
Charles E. Orser Jr.
Jeffrey Quilter
Melisa Salerno
Mary Van Buren
Parker VanValkenburgh
Andrés Zarankin
THE FABRIC OF
R E S I S TA N C E
Textile Workshops and the Rise of
Rebellious Landscapes
in Colonial Peru
Di Hu
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
Tuscaloosa
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487- 0380
uapress.ua.edu
Copyright © 2022 by Di Hu
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of Alabama Press.
Typeface: Minion Pro
Cover images: Sixteenth- century Inka tunic pattern; courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, purchase, Fletcher Fund, Claudia Quentin Gift, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,
2017; colonial- era map of study area; Bautista Saavedra, Defensa de los derechos de Bolivia
ante el gobierno Argentino en el litigio de fronteras con la republica del Perú, 1906
Cover design: Lori Lynch
The figures are available through CC by 4.0.
Cataloging- in- Publication data is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 2115- 4
E- ISBN: 978- 0- 8173- 9388- 5
To the pueblo of Pomacocha and in memory
of Juan Teodulfo Palomino Salvatierra

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Introduction: From Fugitives to the
“Most Addicted to Revolution”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1
Legacies of Inca Imperialism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2
Losing Ground, Expanding Horizons (1640–1740) . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3
Embers of Resistance in the Shadow of the Workshop
(1690–1760) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4
Rising Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Andean Insurrections
(1770–1815) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5
Hats of Many Colors: Identity Formation in the Wars
of Independence (1814–1824) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Conclusion: Rebellious Networks and Landscapes as the
Fabric of Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURES
Figures are available through CC by 4.0.
I.1. Approximate extent of the Spanish colonial province of
Vilcashuamán . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
I.2. Stacked bar graph of the number of documented revolts
and rebellions (Peru and Bolivia) in eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
I.3. Map of places mentioned in the book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1. Location of Yanawilka in relation to Inca settlements and
travel times by foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2. Rocky landscape of Yanawilka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.3. Aerial photo of the site of Yanawilka and locations of the
two rocky outcrops called Yanawilka and Saqapayoq. . . . . . . . . 21
1.4. Map of the excavation units in relation to structures, topography,
and large rocky outcrops at Yanawilka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.5. Map of nearest locations of arrowroot and cassava growing areas
to Yanawilka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
1.6. Map of Conde and Tanquihua lands in the province of
Vilcashuamán . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.7. Three Inca tall- necked jar lugs found in Unit Y1 underneath
foundation stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.8. Artistic reconstruction of the mitmaq settlement of Yanawilka
and its surrounding landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1.9. Reducciones, haciendas, and land-l oss patterns of the Condes
and Tanquihuas from 1533 to 1600 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38