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In the longue durée perspective and in an American pan regional dimension, this article intends to analyze the «ball games» which are documented in archaeological and ethnohistorical studies and sources about the Americas, starting in Mesoamerica, throughout the Andean region, up to the lowlands of South America to focus the social continuities and ruptures observed from the «game» as its lens. The physical and socio-political structures as well as the materialities of the «ball games» will be analyzed. An anthropological reading of the sources will be offered. Focusing the continuities and the ruptures in different pre-Spanish, colonial and independent societies of the Americas up to the present, it will be determined, that the «game» cannot be understood only as a game, but as being embedded within a whole continuum of sports, war, ...

One of the major transformations of the landscape and ecosystem that the Cochabamba Valley underwent was due to the conquest by the Incas, which caused the displacement of its population and the relocation of mitimaes from all parts of Tawantinsuyu to work the newly expropriated state lands. Thus, the valley became a new centre of dependency and consolidation of the Inca state. Only shortly afterwards, the Spanish conquest, through new displacements of labour, created colonial dependencies, but based on already-existing structures, especially on the state farms. The lands themselves became the nucleus of colonial exploitation and therefore the focus of conflicts between Spaniards and indigenous people, but also between the indigenous people themselves. Our aim is to understand the intertwining of the dependencies created in the course of both conquests, which were reflected in various mo...