Alberto Flores Galindo was an intellectual giant whose seminal work, Buscando un Inca: Identidad y utopía en los Andes (1986), helped reshape the field of Peruvian history. Authors Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker trace his influences, contributions, and role as a leftist and a public intellectual. Mirroring the structure of Flores Galindo's famous tome, this book is a series of reflective essays, some previously presented or published and others new.
Chapters 1, 2, and 6 recount the historiographical influences and contributions of Flores Galindo's work. Chapter 1 does a broad accounting of Flores Galindo's intellectual journey, discussing what authors affected his own development and the largest conceptual contributions that he made. Aguirre and Walker argue that his approach coalesced with the scholars of his generation of 1968, who were guided by the tumultuous times inside and outside Peru. They emphasize the importance of his idea of Andean utopianism, his commitment...
