Book ID: CBB001202065

The Two Faces of Inca History: Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco (2012)

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Yaya, Isabel (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xi + 296 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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.

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Review Cummins, Thomas B. F. (2014) Review of "The Two Faces of Inca History: Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco". Hispanic American Historical Review (p. 109). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Milbrath, Susan
Nicolas Balbi
Heaney, Christopher
Gustavo Corrado
José L. Pino Matos
Calandra McCool
Concepts
Native American civilization and culture
Astronomy
Calendars
Cosmology
Science and culture
Incas
Time Periods
Ancient
17th century
Precolumbian period (America)
9th century
16th century
Places
South America
Peru
Mexico
India
Citizen Band Potawatomi Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
Middle and Near East
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