| Description |
xv, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Themes and Arguments -- Reality Represented in the Imagination -- Philosophy and Theology -- Religion and Politics -- Invasion of Peru and First Contacts, 1532-1535 -- The Devil and Divination -- The Last Inti Raimi and the End of Imperial Religion -- The Incas and Their Spanish Historians, 1535-1552 -- Divination and the Dead -- Cuzco, the Ruling City -- Incas, Mummies, and the Order of Time -- Andean Sacred Space and Time, 1552-1583 -- Regional Cults and the Incas -- Memories of Inti Raimi -- Taqui Onqoy and Inca Antiquities -- The Impact of Theory: Bartolome de Las Casas on Culture, Imagination, and Idolatry, circa 1560 -- The Worship of One God -- Demons and the Imagination -- Gains and Losses -- The Mind of the Missionary: Jose de Acosta on Accommodation and Extirpation, circa 1590 -- The Inca and His Gods: The Turn of the Century in the Andes -- The Vision of Inca Pachacuti -- Prophecy and the End of Tahuantinsuyo -- The True Religion in Ancient Peru -- Religion and Philosophy: Garcilaso de la Vega and Some Peruvian Readers, 1609-1639 -- Ideas of the Holy -- The Phantasm Viracocha -- Conversion and Desengano -- The Great Divide: Andean Religion in Theory and Practice, 1621-1653 -- The View from Lima -- Andeans in Their Land -- Epilogue: Vision, Imagination, and Society. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-480) and index. |
| Subject |
Incas -- Historiography.
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Andes Region -- History.
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Incas -- Religion.
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Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548.
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| Indexed Term |
Religion History |
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Peru |
| ISBN |
0691094683 alkaline paper $39.50 |
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