Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty. Cerros, Kurakas y Momias: Transformaciones de la Soberanía Indígena Andina. Peter Gose. Población & Sociedad [en línea], ISSN-L 0328 3445, Vol. 23 (2), 2016, pp. 9-34. Puesto en línea en diciembre de 2016. http://www.poblacionysociedad.org.ar/archivos/23/P&S-V23-N2- Gose.pdf Copyright Los derechos de autor son propiedad de P&S. Las solicitudes de permiso para reproducir total o parcialmente artículos publicados en la revista deben ser dirigidas a la misma. El Comité Editorial, en general, permitirá a los autores la reproducción ulterior de sus propios artículos. Para otorgar permisos a terceros, se requerirá del consentimiento de los autores. © Población & Sociedad - Grupo Editor Yocavil Contacto Correo postal: San Lorenzo 429 - (T4000CAM) - San Miguel de Tucumán – Argentina E-mail:
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[email protected] Página web: www.poblacionysociedad.org.ar Debate Mountains, Kurakas and Mummies: Transformations in Indigenous Andean Sovereignty Cerros, Kurakas y Momias: Transformaciones de la Soberanía Indígena Andina Peter Gose Abstract This essay argues that Andean mountains have not always embodied indigenous sovereignty as they do today. The lordly titles that mountains now bear were, until the second half of the colonial period, held by ancestral mummies and living indigenous political authorities in a previous configuration of power. Case studies show how that earlier regime “returned to the earth”, a development which eventually led to the rise of mountains as sovereign entities. This essay explores the processes by which this complex transition occurred and emphasizes the insurrections of 1780-4, which replaced the earlier regime with a more democratic community-based authority, to which modern mountain lords correspond.