Ethnicity and descent Incas today, flesh and blood: Cusco 2020

After the Spanish victory, those Incas who made a pact with the Spanish monarchy obtained the recognition of their descent and survived throughout the colonial period. Once the controversial independence of Peru was achieved, in 1825 Bolívar made a decree that abolished native and Spanish nobility titles. Some Incas would then change their original surnames in order to survive in an extremely exclusive and discriminatory system against the indigenous population. Some others would maintain their surnames and customs until today, like Ayllus and Inca families, who have existed from the Inca period on. This article reconstructs the authors’ family tree and that of other Cuzco families, by means of which continuity can be proven and maintained in what concerns social significance.