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Manuscript Used to Eradicate Andean Thought is Now Key to Revitalizing it

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The Irony of the Mestizo Label in Peru

Peru was told for hundreds of years that you were not indigenous. If you were mixed, you were mestizo. Being a mestizo allowed you to hide your indigenous identity. The other parallel irony is that the man who sought the suppression of these ideas may have had indigenous roots himself,. That's the Catholic eroticator of idolatries who commissioned the manuscript.

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