José Luis Martínez (2011) People from the land of war. The lipes in the Andean traditions and the colonial imaginary. Lime. Editorial Fund of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú-DIBAM

Abstract

The book People of the land of war. The lipes in the Andean traditions and the colonial imaginary of the Chilean anthropologist and ethnohistorian José Luis Martínez, addresses both a case study and a theoretical-methodological problematic. Being a prominent speaker of Andean studies, the author identifies a gap in the specialized literature, a gap that leads him to generate a methodological proposal that, in turn, creates an epistemological break in the investigations of this cultural area.
In this sense, Martínez offers a controversial monograph that remembers the base of the ethnohistorical studies on the Andes until reaching its foundations. It is a work that is far from closing a controversy about the way in which ethnohistory is made, especially in the field of the treatment of sources.