This book presents a spatially integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical examination of how successive colonial Inka and Spanish colonial rule in the Andes was locally experienced and transformed through the sociocultural interfaces of community and landscape. It traces the development of two late prehispanic ethnic polities—the Collaguas and Cabanas—and investigates how their incorporation into the Inka and Spanish empires related to the transformation of community organization, land use and land-form patterning, state institutions, and the physical configuration of the landscape of the C ... More

This book presents a spatially integrated archaeological and ethnohistorical examination of how successive colonial Inka and Spanish colonial rule in the Andes was locally experienced and transformed through the sociocultural interfaces of community and landscape. It traces the development of two late prehispanic ethnic polities—the Collaguas and Cabanas—and investigates how their incorporation into the Inka and Spanish empires related to the transformation of community organization, land use and land-form patterning, state institutions, and the physical configuration of the landscape of the Colca Valley of highland Peru. Through analysis of archaeological settlement and land-use patterns, it first tracks how Inkaic and Spanish forms of imperial rule grafted onto local structures of community and landscape. Through GIS-based reconstruction of early colonial-era land-tenure patterns, Negotiated Settlements shows how ancient forms of land use persisted despite successive Inkaic and Spanish colonial occupations. Findings from the only excavations of an early Spanish doctrinal complex in the highland Andes document how a Spanish model of urban order was inserted in a small rural Andean hamlet in the early post-conquest era, even as the effectiveness of that model depended on its resonance with Inkaic precedents. Through its emplaced perspective, Negotiated Settlements moves beyond both top-down and resistance-oriented approaches to show how colonial projects were substantially modified in their actual manifestation in daily life, producing new improvised social orders.