Ancestral Warriors: Native and Afro-Andean Discourses on Conquest in 17th Century Peru and Bolivia

Join Adriana Zenteno Hopp, PhD candidate at Harvard’s History Department, as she examines how Native and Afro-Andean communities in 17th-century Peru and Bolivia recalled the pre-Columbian and early colonial past. Through judicial, literary, and material sources—including origin stories, oral histories, and religious customs—she uncovers how these narratives functioned as powerful vehicles of collective and individual memories within native communities. Her analysis sheds light on how native Andean peoples viewed and experienced colonialism.

Speaker: Adriana Zenteno Hopp, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Andean Working Group, the Department of History, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.