Contact Information
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
My research engages ethnohistory, archaeology, and art history (among other disciplines) to reconstruct prehistoric and early colonial Andean belief systems, ontologies, and human-animal relations. I have published books on the history of early modern astrology, Andean wak’a, and Inka relationships with birds. My most recent publication, “Inka Bird Idiom. Amazonian Feathers in the Andes” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) deciphers the powerful Andean symbolic idiom of feathers.
Education
Ph.D.: Munich University, Habilitation: Munich University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, History
Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications
Brosseder, C. R. (2023). Inka Bird Idiom: Amazonian Feathers in the Andes. (Pitt Latin American Series). University of Pittsburgh Press.
Brosseder, C. R. (2019). Unsettling and Unsettled Readings: Occult Scripts in 16th-Century Lima and the Challenges of Andean Knowledge. In E. A. Engel (Ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Lima (pp. 275-309). (Brill's Companions to the Americas; Vol. 2). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335363_014
Brosseder, C. R. (2018). El Poder de la Huacas: Cambios y resistencia en los andes del Perú colonial. Ediciones El Lector.
Brosseder, C. (2018). Secularizing the Andes: The Effects of Transcultural Processes on Colonial Andean Rituals. In I. G. Županov, & P. A. Fabre (Eds.), The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World (pp. 301-321). (Studies in Christian Mission; Vol. 53). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004366299_013
Brosseder, C. (2018). The conquest of the Andes from Andean perspectives. In The Andean World (pp. 161-174). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315621715