Abstract (eng)
The situation of the indigenous peoples in South America dramatically changed after the “New World” has been discovered and the Conquerors of the Spanish Crown arrived there. These changes have effects lasting until nowadays. This paper especially evaluates the position of women in the
ancient society of the Inca Imperium, the changes that happened until today and the current atmosphere of departure, activated by the general political rise of the indigenous population in the area formerly reigned by the Inca
(that is today´s Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru).
Regarding this comparison two completely dirfferent views of the world collide here: the christian-european view of roman catholic Spaniards, who relegate women to subordination within the Spanish society, contantly having them depend on men, and the parallel structure of genders in Incan and pre-
Columbian societies, who favor equally matched, parallel hirarchies of men and women. After many centuries of oppression and exploitation, relics of these ancient structures start to come back in many areas of Andean life, having survived in many Andean villages and finding their way to the cities via migration.
In a globalized world, where a christian-euorpean philosophy of ionic origin ist not entiteled anymore to claim holding the one and only truth, a global intercultural discourse between many different mindsets and views has to take place in order to find new ways and targets, and Andean philosophy with its parallel structures of gender might be an important basis for doing just that, not only discussing different cultures but the relations between men and women as well.