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andino, but further study of the period between Gasca and Toledo from
this perspective will undoubtedly clarify this story of political defeat and
throw new light on the ways in which the members of Andean societies
understood, and dealt with, the Spanish invaders. I made an initial
attempt to see the period from this perspective in Huarochiri, 136-156,
but the picture is far more nuanced and complex than I understood at
that time. Carlos Sempat has come closer in the essays in Transiciones,
especially chapters 4 and 6; the petitions in the Archive of the Indies for
reward of services submitted to the crown by Andean kurakas, which he
cites, may well prove invaluable in reconstructing the history of the
participation of the members of Andean society in the political struggles
that preceded the administration of the fifth viceroy, Francisco de Toledo,
and made possible the exclusion of the members of Andean societies
from the colonial system.
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