The Making of Andean Ancestral Traditions

Thousands of miles away and across an ocean from the Central African Kazembes, and a similar distance south of the North American Ho-De’-No-Sau-Nee, Andean peoples used positional inheritance to recollect their heroic past and focus their thoughts on their ancestors. That forms the context of a long confrontation between two Spaniards and their successors over the right to enjoy the labor and tribute of a group of fishermen on the coast of what is today Peru. The Iberian practice of indirect rule, where the Spanish relied on native lords to organize labor drafts and collect the tribute goods, meant that,