¿Trasplantes incaicos o etnogénesis poscolonial? El origen de los salasacas de la Sierra ecuatoriana

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Rachel Corr
Karen Vieira Powers Vieira Powers

Abstract

The salasacas are an indigenous group with a controversial history of origen.  Many manuscripts state that they descend from an uprooted Inca population  that traveled north from present Bolivia to their new settlement that is now  Ecuador. The article presents an alternative narrative that identifies three separate migrations to Salasaca, by different indigenas groups, in the Sixteenth Century. It shows that the modern Salasacan nationality emerged during colonial and postcolonial transformations. It contends that the ethnic distinction of the salasacas is due to the fact that they opted to collectively unite as one solid  ethnic group in order to remain as an Indigenas enclave in a region that was  experiencing whitening or widespread emergence of half castes.

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Rachel Corr

PhD en Antropología por la University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Profesora Asociada de Antropología en el Wilkes Honors College de Florida Atlantic University, Estados Unidos. Ha recibido las becas Fulbright IIE, Fulbright-Hays, y National Endowment for the Humanities para investigar en Ecuador. Entre sus publicaciones constan Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes, University of Arizona Press, 2010.

Karen Vieira Powers Vieira Powers

PhD en Historia por la Universidad de Nueva York. Ha estudiado etnohistoria de los Andes por más de treinta años. Entre sus publicaciones más importantes se incluyen: Prendas con pies: migraciones indígenas y supervivencia cultural en la Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1994; y Women in the Crucible of Conquest: the Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.