Rebuilding Community in Colonial Peru:Investigating the Reducción of Santa Cruzde Tuti

摘要

When Francisco de Toledo, the 5th viceroy of Peru, arrived in the Andes in November of 1569, the region was convulsing in crises that followed a generation of plunder, chaotic rule, and violence. The Inka state-in-exile posed an existential threat to the colony, while declining mining and tributary revenues and a rapidly spreading Andean millenarian cult in the central highlands troubled the core and margins of the colonial order.