Los incas y el ayllu en el espacio transatlántico: apuntes preliminares para una historia entrelazada entre Perú y Europa

Abstract

This paper researches the traces of the Incas and the ayllu from a long-term historical perspective, highlighting them as an ‘Andean utopia’ as well as a political program in Peru and in Europe. It will be shown that these concepts attracted great attention and interest in both Latin America and in Europe. We will therefore investigate the diffusion and circulation of ideas and representations in the transatlantic space which pertain to different ways of thinking and to political objectives between the 17th and the 20th centuries. This approach represents a new methodological perspective which focuses on the dynamics of exchange and circulation of persons, representations, images, practices and objects which consistently cross local, regional, national and even continental frontiers. These exchanges include academic ideas, ideologies and approaches.