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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Sergio Serulnikov. Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth-Century Southern Andes. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 287. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95.

In 1780, much of southern Peru and Bolivia exploded in a series of rebellions that challenged Spanish colonial rule and put the colonial project into question. These movements have often been subsumed under the name of the Túpac Amaru rebellion, but the movement led by Túpac Amaru in the Cuzco-Lake Titicaca region was not the first upheaval to confront the colonial system. That distinction belonged to the insurrection in the region between Sucre and Potosí, Bolivia, known as Chayanta or the north of Potosí led by Tomáas Katari and his brothers Dámaso and Nicolás. Likewise, within Bolivia, at least until recently, the insurrection led by Julián Apasa, also known as Túpac Katari, which laid siege to La Paz somewhat overshadowed the Chayanta movement in terms of scholarly attention. Thus, the turbulent and determined struggles of the native peoples in the north of Potosí have to a certain degree been the scholarly "orphan" of the revolutionary movements that swept the southern Andes. Sergio Serulnikov ends this situation with his insightful, well-researched book. With his close-to-the-ground analysis of the political motivations and the cultural understandings of various indigenous peoples, including Machas, Pocoatas, and Jukumanis, at the core of this conflict, Serulnikov has gone a long way toward restoring their human agency while providing a complex and subtle analysis of their actions.

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