...John Howland Rowe Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 The gold of Peru. Masterpieces of goldsmith’s work of pre-Incan and Incan time and the colonial period . By Gallo Miguel Mujica . Recklinghausen , 1959 . Aurei Bongers Verlag . 144 color plates . Pp. 296...

... 1967 History of Indo-American Literature . Book I: Pre-Columbian Literatures, Aztec, Incan, Maya, Quiché . By Arías-Larreta Abraham . Starkville, Miss. , 1965 . New World Library . Notes. Glossaries. Bibliography . Pp. xiii , 118 . ...

... of the Kingdoms of Peru (New York, 1921), I, 196-198; Sarmiento de Gamboa, History , 167-168; Miguel Cabello Valboa, Miscelánea antártica una historia del Perú antiguo (Lima 1951), 393-394. Did smallpox exist in the Incan lands before the 1520s? Fernando Montesinos, writing in the seventeenth century, claimed...

... not offer a total picture of American thought before the European intrusion. We need to explore Mayan wisdom, for instance, since it was more profound than Aztec or Incan, and concerning which we possess more documents, while in the United States we might study our own native systems. América profunda...

... focuses on the development of yanaconaje —a form of peonage which evolved over time into a complex pre-capitalistic tenancy arrangement—from its origins in the Incan period to its final disappearance following the promulgation of the nation’s 1969 agrarian reform decree. Matos’ title is somewhat...

... the display of Incan paraphernalia during the above-mentioned fiestas. This Cahill explains in detail. However, Cahill’s approach and interpretation remains solely a Western view of Incan imaginary. Bradley’s approach not only adds to contemporary debates on the “imaginary” in colonial literature but also...

... groups. She argues that the Incan polity and cosmology altered traditional Andean ideals of gender equality and complementarity in ways that rewarded men and subordinated women. The argument is most forceful in her symbolic analysis of aclla , the institution which gave the Incas jurisdiction over...

.... Seeking new roots for national pride, intellectuals and others reimagined the preconquest past, exalting the glories of ancient Tiahuanaco or positing local links to Incan achievements. Kuenzli shows how disparate Aymara actors actively navigated this moment, examining local elites in the town...

.... In his vision, Peruvian ties with the monarchy were to be severed entirely. He advocated establishing a new and independent Peruvian empire stretching from Lima to the River Plate with its capital in the iconic Incan capital of Cuzco, ruled by “ españoles americanos ” alone, though “ españoles europeos...

... and demographics, and had read about Incan and pre-Incan archaeology. Some thoughts that crossed my mind while reading these two wonderfully written books were more aimed at authors and politicians covered by Rénique: What was their factual knowledge of indigenous lives? Wouldn't it be quite something if we today...

..., and eight pages of plates have been added, including a sixteenth-century illustration of Aztec dancers and musicians and modern photographs of selected Mesoamerican and Incan instruments. In this printing, the format is slightly reduced, enhancing neither readability nor the book’s original good design...

... . Cloth . $29.95 . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Chan Chan flourished on the north coast of Peru between a.d. 1000 and 1500, as the capital of an empire second only to the Incan in extent. Its crumbling adobe walls cover six square kilometers. This multiauthored volume...

... who emphasize the Indians as part of their nation (e. g., the Marxist Oswaldo Albornoz or Plutarco Naranjo) find origins in prehistory or in the Incan invasion. Others (e. g., Jorge Luna Yepes and Fray José María Vargas) find roots in the Spanish conquest and settlement of Quito, and still others see...

... with the tense theology and history of the Aztecs or the Incan and Chibcha legends. In colonial Central America, we meet only Las Casas and Bernal Díaz, plus Landívar later on; yet the latter wrote in Latin, which by the same token would admit Gage, another observant exile who wrote in Hispanized English...

... a dozen pages of critical comment on the first part of the Letters, little of which is original. Steeped in Peruviana to the point that he imagined himself a Peruvian, Carli professed to long for a social and economic system like the Incan empire so that he might retire and live in complete felicity...

... for nonindigenous rural Amazon inhabitants? And what about the big, bad wolf or the three bears for northern Europe? The next essays form companion pieces. R. Tom Zuidema’s analysis of Incan thought concerning the role of Cuzco as a symbolic lion relies heavily on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works...

... to representations of Aztec and Incan Empires as, at the very least, technologically different from their counterparts in other world regions, historians and anthropologists have instead operated largely within a comparative framework that emphasizes shared structures of symbolic practices, social hierarchies...

... intellectuals, such as José Gabriel Cosio, who understood Machu Picchu as a symbol of national belonging (p. 109). This nationalist project that celebrated the glorious Incan past, however, required the removal of the “degenerative indigenous present” (p. 21). This, for Hall, helps explain why...

... of Cuzco in the mid-1530s. She argues that rulers such as Manco Inca and Tupac Amaru could not accept attractive offers of peace from the viceregal government because the Spaniards failed to provide satisfactory rewards to the powerful Incan nobles who effectively controlled Vilcabamba. Elsa Malvido...

... of the Letters, little of which is original. Steeped in Peruviana to the point that he imagined himself a Peruvian, Carli professed to long for a social and economic system like the Incan empire so that he might retire and live in complete felicity the rest of his life. It is hard to take these socialistic...