Author: RAMIREZ, Susan Elizabeth.
Title: The World Upside Down. Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru.
Description: Stanford University Press, 1996. Hardcover. B/W illus. Fine in dj. Describes how the imposed Spanish colonial system altered the organization & belief systems (eg. indigeneous ideas about leadership & legitimacy, the supernatural & morality, land & tenure, service & allegiance, & wealth) of the native inhabitants of northern Peru during the first 50 years or so of the Spanish conquest. 234pp.

Keywords: anthropology history sociology peru 16th century sixteenth spain spanish colony colonialism conflict