| The Two Faces of Inca History: Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco Contributor(s): Yaya (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004233857 ISBN-13: 9789004233850 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $160.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - History | Latin America - South America - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 985 |
| LCCN: 2012027324 |
| Series: Early Americas: History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.7" (1.72 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The historical narratives of the Inca dynasty, known to us through Spanish records, present several discrepancies that scholarship has long attributed to the biases and agendas of colonial actors. Drawing on a redefinition of royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of primary sources, this book restores the pre-Hispanic voices embedded in the chronicles. It identifies two distinctive bodies of Inca oral traditions, each of which encloses a mutually conflicting representation of the past that, considered together, reproduces patterns of Cuzco's moiety division. Building on this new insight, the author revisits dual representations in the cosmology and ritual calendar of the ruling elite. The result is a fresh contribution to ethnohistorical works that have explored native ways of constructing history. |
