Gonzalo Lamana Inca-Spanish Encounters sku-10082220

Gonzalo Lamana's hardcover Latin America Otherwise: Domination without Dominance: Inca-Spanish Encounters in Early Colonial Peru is listed under Latin American History Books as sku-10082220. Drawing on published accounts and archival sources, Lamana revisits the period from first contact between Spanish conquistadores and Andean peoples in 1531 to the emergence of a functioning colonial regime around 1550.

He examines subalternization, meaning making, copying and exotization, including accounts of books expected to talk and year-long attacks that could begin only under a full moon. He argues that Inca and Spanish practices overlapped in battle, conversion, trade, politics and land tenure.

His account calls the result "domination without dominance" and challenges the assumption that military superiority establishes cultural superiority. It also considers what this interpretation means for understandings of Western colonialism and current global configurations.