HIST 16G: Echoes of the Past: Indigenous Retellings of Conquest & Colonialism

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024

Professor: Adriana Zenteno Hopp
T - 3:00pm to 5:45pm

How might Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, or Atahuallpa, the Inca emperor, have told the story of their respective encounters with Europeans? Too often, indigenous voices are not centered when we tell the history of colonial Latin America. This seminar aims to address this issue by exploring how native people living under colonialism understood the pre-Hispanic and early colonial past. Together, we will examine the many ways native people told stories about what had transpired, including the use of oral history, unique recording devices and material objects, some of which we will explore as a class at Harvard’s Peabody Museum.

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