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Book 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

Download or read book 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 written by Philip Ainsworth Means and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 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

Download or read book 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 written by Philip Ainsworth Means and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of South American Indians  The Andean civilizations

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians The Andean civilizations written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of South American Indians

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas

Download or read book Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas written by Cristóbal de Molina and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review  1956 1975

Download or read book Guide to the Hispanic American Historical Review 1956 1975 written by Wilber A. Chaffee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How the Incas Built Their Heartland

Download or read book How the Incas Built Their Heartland written by R. Alan Covey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Book The History of the Incas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
  • Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
  • Release : 2009-03-16
  • ISBN : 0292795483
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The History of the Incas written by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Inka Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Izumi Shimada
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2015-06-01
  • ISBN : 0292760795
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Inka Empire written by Izumi Shimada and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without wheeled vehicles, markets, or a writing system, the Inka. For some 130 years (ca. A.D. 1400 to 1533), the Inka ruled over at least eighty-six ethnic groups in an empire that encompassed about 2 million square kilometers, from the northernmost region of the Ecuador–Colombia border to northwest Argentina. The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century.

Book The Hispanic American Historical Review

Download or read book The Hispanic American Historical Review written by James Alexander Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Bibliographical section".

Book Biblioteca Andina  Pt  1   Essays on the Lives and Works of the Chroniclers  Or

Download or read book Biblioteca Andina Pt 1 Essays on the Lives and Works of the Chroniclers Or written by Philip Ainsworth Means and published by Detroit : Blaine Ethridge-Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biblioteca Andina

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  • Author : Philip Ainsworth Means
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 9780879170257
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Biblioteca Andina written by Philip Ainsworth Means and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

Download or read book Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 15, "To the University of Leipzig on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of its foundation, from Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1909."

Book Music in Latin America and the Caribbean  An Encyclopedic History

Download or read book Music in Latin America and the Caribbean An Encyclopedic History written by Malena Kuss and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries. Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America, and Mexico, focuses on the inextricable relationships between worldviews and musical experience in the current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into, among other things, how music is organized and performed, how musical instruments are constructed and when they are played, choreographic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of gender to instruments, and ritual patterns. Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich volume.

Book The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru  Abridged

Download or read book The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru Abridged written by Garcilaso De La Vega and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.

Book Beowulfian and Odyssean Voyages

Download or read book Beowulfian and Odyssean Voyages written by Albert Stanburrough Cook and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Notes

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Indian Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: