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Yse armo el tale tole: tributo indigena y movimientos sociales en el virreinato del Peru, 1784-1814. By NTRA SALA I VILA. Huamanga, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Regionales "Jose Maria Arguedas," 1996. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. 320 pp. Paper.
Why were interethnic alliances impossible at the end of the colonial period in Peru? Why was there no single pan-Indian movement at that same time? Why was there no multiclass national vision for Peru? The answers to these and other questions posed by Nuria Sala i Vila in this ambitious "history from below" revolve around reaction to changes in indigenous tribute.
Sala i Vila argues that since the time of the Toledan reforms tribute was the single most important factor affecting the coherence of indigenous communities: tribute...