Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Biblioteca Andina: The chroniclers, or, writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who treated of the pre-Hispanic history and culture of the Andean countries
Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Biblioteca Andina
Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Andes Region
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biblioteca Andina [Pt. 1]: Essays on the Lives and Works of the Chroniclers, Or
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Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher: Detroit : Blaine Ethridge-Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Biblioteca Andina
Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879170257
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Biblioteca Andina
Author: Philip Ainsworth MeansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Handbook of South American Indians: The Andean civilizations
Author: Julian Haynes StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Handbook of South American Indians
Author: Julian Haynes StewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas
Author: Cristóbal de MolinaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292748442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher General of the city. Molina was an outstanding Quechua speaker, and his advanced language skills allowed him to interview the older indigenous men of Cuzco who were among the last surviving eyewitnesses of the rituals conducted at the height of Inca rule. Thus, Molina's account preserves a crucial first-hand record of Inca religious beliefs and practices. This volume is the first English translation of Molina's Relación de las fábulas y ritos de los incas since 1873 and includes the first authoritative scholarly commentary and notes. The work opens with several Inca creation myths and descriptions of the major gods and shrines (huacas). Molina then discusses the most important rituals that occurred in Cuzco during each month of the year, as well as rituals that were not tied to the ceremonial calendar, such as birth rituals, female initiation rites, and marriages. Molina also describes the Capacocha ritual, in which all the shrines of the empire were offered sacrifices, as well as the Taqui Ongoy, a millennial movement that spread across the Andes during the late 1560s in response to growing Spanish domination and accelerated violence against the so-called idolatrous religions of the Andean peoples.
The History of the Incas
Author: Pedro Sarmiento de GamboaPublisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292795483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A new translation and introduction to an invaluable source of information on the last and largest empire to develop in the indigenous Americas. The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, just forty years after the arrival of the first Spaniards. The royal sponsorship of the work guaranteed Sarmiento direct access to the highest Spanish officials in Cuzco. It allowed him to summon influential Incas, especially those who had witnessed the fall of the Empire. Sarmiento also traveled widely and interviewed numerous local lords (curacas), as well as surviving members of the royal Inca families. Once completed, in an unprecedented effort to establish the authenticity of the work, Sarmiento’s manuscript was read, chapter by chapter, to forty-two indigenous authorities for commentary and correction. The scholars behind this new edition (the first to be published in English since 1907) went to similarly great lengths in pursuit of accuracy. Translators Brian Bauer and Vania Smith used an early transcript and, in some instances, the original document to create the text. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster’s introduction lays bare the biases Sarmiento incorporated into his writing. It also theorizes what sources, in addition to his extensive interviews, Sarmiento relied upon to produce his history. Finally, more than sixty new illustrations enliven this historically invaluable document of life in the ancient Andes.
How the Incas Built Their Heartland
Author: R. Alan CoveyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472114788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
"In How the Incas Built Their Heartland R. Alan Covey supplements an archaeological approach with the tools of a historian, forming an interdisciplinary study of how the Incas became sufficiently powerful to embark on an unprecedented campaign of territorial expansion and how such developments related to earlier patterns of Andean statecraft."--BOOK JACKET.