History of the native population of South America

Abstract

The main research on the historical demography of the native populations in South America was developed in the late 1970s, in a context of new questions and theories on Andean history (Murra 1975; Sánchez Albornoz 1978; Cook 1981). This increase of new ideas was possible thanks to the fact that groups of intellectuals coming from different fields, such as history, archaeology and anthropology, joined forces…