Ethinking Forced Resettlement in the Colonial Andes

Ethinking Forced Resettlement in the Colonial Andes

98mm 100mm 100mm 100mm From the sixteenth century onward, Spain adopted a is symposium will be the rst event of a ve-year forced resettlement policy in its American colonies, research project that aims to establish a comprehensive which required widely scattered small indigenous picture of Toledo’s resettlement scheme. Despite its settlements to consolidate into larger, planned towns. recognition as a watershed event in Andean history, e main objectives of this policy were to promote Toledo’s reform has not received the scholarly attention conversion of the native population to Christianity, and it merits. Basic information about its ideological to make it easier to exact taxes and corvée labor from background is still lacking, as also are its relation to them. Among all the forced resettlement projects realized European imperial politics and its evolution as a colonial Organized by: in Spanish America, that of the fth viceroy of Peru, policy. e process of its implementation is also poorly Francisco de Toledo, stands out for its authoritarian understood. Previous studies on this topic are highly character, drastic measures, large scale, and profound localized, and, as a result, there is no consensus National Museum of Ethnology, Japan International Symposium impacts. Between 1570 and 1575, Toledo made an regarding eects on native society. is research project inspection tour of the vast Andean region. Using will attempt to compare dierent regional cases and appointed inspectors, he made a detailed census of the clarify the general characteristics of Toledo’s native population, assessed taxes and built new towns resettlement scheme. His reform will also be compared Vanderbilt University, USA ethinking (reducciones). e census, produced at the end of his with similar reforms conducted elsewhere in Spanish inspection tour, lists a native population of 1.4 million America, and its signicance in the history of Spanish Forced Resettlement distributed in 839 towns. colonization will be determined. Finally, the research project will compare Toledo’s policy with other measures in the Colonial Andes of state intervention in Europe, and thus clarify its place in the early modern political landscape. Information at: November 6-8, 2015 http://www.r.minpaku.ac.jp/reducciones/activi05.html Community Room Jean and Alexander Heard Library Vanderbilt University International Symposium Friday, November 6 Saturday, November 7 Saturday, November 7 (continued) (Coee, tea, and pastries available during the morning session) ethinking 1:00-1:20 Opening Remarks Built Environments of the Reducciones Forced Resettlement Impacts of the Resettlement on Native Society 3:30-4:20 “A Reconsideration of Inca Architecture in 9:15-10:05 “Municipal Republics in the Iberian the Early Colonial Period” Project Overview in the Colonial Andes Atlantic World” Stella Nair (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 1:20-2:20 “Colonial Modernity in the Andes: S. Elizabeth Penry (Fordham University, USA) A Comprehensive Study of Viceroy Toledo’s General 4:20-5:10 “Restructuring Visions: Art and Indigenous Resettlement” 10:05-10:55 “Viceroy Francisco de Toledo, Architect of Communities after the Toledo Reforms” Akira Saito (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) Andean Christianity” Hiroshige Okada (Osaka University, Japan) John Charles (Tulane University, USA) 2:20-2:50 Coee Break 5:10-5:30 Closing Remarks 10:55-11:45 “Transiciones entre los Andes y las Tierras Bajas: Date: Current Research Landscape hacia una aproximación comparativa de los modelos 5:30-6:30 Reception (Library gallery, 2nd oor) November 6-8, 2015 2:50-3:40 “Historiography of the Toledan Reducciones” reduccionales” Jeremy Ravi Mumford (Brown University, USA) Guillermo Wilde (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientícas y Técnicas, Argentina) Venue: 3:40-4:30 “Archaeological Perspectives on the Reducción Community Room Process: Considering Interregional Variation in 11:45-1:10 Catered Lunch Sunday, November 8 the Movement’s Dynamics and Its Afterlives” Jean and Alexander Heard Library (not open to the public) Garland Hall, Room 2A Parker VanValkenburgh (Brown University, USA) Digital Humanities Approaches to the Resettlement Vanderbilt University 1:10-2:10 “Deep Mapping the Reducción: Building a Platform 8:30- 9:00 Continental Breakfast 419 21st Avenue South, Nashville 4:30-5:20 “Las reducciones toledanas en la tradición for Spatial Humanities Collaboration on the General 9:00-12:00 Round Table Discussions TN 37203, USA antropológica sobre las sociedades andinas peruanas” Resettlement of Indians in the Viceroyalty of Peru” Alejandro Diez Hurtado (Ponticia Universidad Católica Steven A. Wernke (Vanderbilt University, USA) Admission is free and no registration is necessary del Perú, Perú) Jeremy Ravi Mumford (Brown University, USA) 5:20-6:30 Reception (Library gallery, 2nd oor) 2:10-3:00 “Developing a Geodatabase to Understand Historico-Geographical Processes of Reducción Contact: Yasuhisa Kondo (Research Institute for Humanity and Akira Saito Nature, Japan) National Museum of Ethnology, Japan [email protected] 3:00-3:30 Coee Break Steven A. Wernke Vanderbilt University, USA [email protected] Photos: Huarochirí, Peru ⓒAkira Saito Colca Valley, Peru ⓒSteven A. Wernke.

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