La Rebelión de Juan Santos Atahuallpa en la selva central peruana (1742-1756). ¿Movimiento religioso o insurrección política?

Abstract

This article makes a revision of some idealist anthropological and historiographic approaches, which have tried, during the last decades, to provide an explanation of the rebelion in the Peruvian Forest (1742-1756) and about its leader, Juan Santos Atahualpa. These approaches appoint to Inca myths and myths from different sources, perhaps incorporated by the rebels, used to build the ideological basis of rebelion. We propose herewith to think again that rebelion as a typical 18th century revolutionary movement of integration, adding some theoretical observations about messianic and political movements.