The two faces of Inca history : dualism in the narratives and cosmology of ancient Cuzco /

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Author / Creator:	Yaya, Isabel.
Imprint:	Boston : Brill, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The early Americas: history and culture ; vol. 3 Early Americas: history and culture ; v. 3.
Subject:	Incas -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Historiography. Incas -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Kings and rulers. Inca cosmology. Inca calendar -- Peru -- Cuzco. Inca calendar. Inca cosmology. Incas -- Historiography. Incas -- Kings and rulers. Cuzco (Peru) -- History -- Sources. Peru -- Cuzco. History. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13538976

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ISBN:	9789004233874 9004233873 9789004233850 9004233857
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Yaya, Isabel. Two faces of Inca history. Boston : Brill, ©2012 9789004233850

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