| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The early Americas: history and culture ; vol. 3
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Early Americas: history and culture ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Making history: knotting and unravelling discursive threads -- Filiation is history: the Inca dialectical view of the past -- Inca and local elites: ritual politics of assimilation -- The ancestral rulers of the dry season -- Epics of the old sun -- The Inca calendar and its transition periods. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Incas -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Historiography.
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Incas. |
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Peru -- Cuzco. |
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Historiography. |
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Incas -- Peru -- Cuzco -- Kings and rulers.
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Kings and rulers. |
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Inca cosmology.
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Inca calendar -- Peru -- Cuzco.
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Inca cosmology. |
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Cuzco (Peru) -- History -- Sources.
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Inca calendar. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. |
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Incas -- Historiography. |
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Incas -- Kings and rulers. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Sources.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yaya, Isabel. Two faces of Inca history. Boston : Brill, ©2012 9789004233850 (DLC) 2012027324 (OCoLC)799253253 |
| ISBN |
9789004233874 (electronic book) |
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9004233873 (electronic book) |
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9789004233850 |
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9004233857 |
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