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Andean Cultural History

Course
2010-2011

Admission requirements

Description

Modern Andean culture has its roots in an indigenous tradition that has been transformed by adaptation during almost five centuries of foreign invasion and cultural domination by Europeanized elites. The focus will be on the colonial period (1532-1810) which lies at the basis of many of the changes that gave Andean society its present form. The course addresses different topics from Andean cultural history from early forms of complex civilization to the cultural and political vindications of contemporary native societies.

Course objectives

Timetable

Timetable

Mode of instruction

Seminar with presentations

Assessment method

Blackboard

Reading list

  • F. Salomon and S. Schwartz, The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas: III South America (2 parts). Cambridge University Press, 1999.

  • J.W. Bastien, Mountain of the Condor. Waveland Press, 1978.

Registration

Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply.

Contact information

Remarks

5 ECTS (extensible to 10 ECTS by written assignment)