Moon, Sun, and Witches : : Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru / / Irene Marsha Silverblatt.
When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpireworshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes,while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Incaqueens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period suchnotions of parallel descent were expressi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chronology
- I. PRODUCING ANDEAN EXISTENCE
- II. GENDER PARALLELISM IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES
- III. GENDER PARALLELISM IN THE IMPERIAL ORDER
- IV. IDEOLOGIES OF CONQUEST IN THE AYLLU
- V. TRANSFORMATIONS: THE CONQUEST HIERARCHY AND IMPERIAL RULE
- VI. UNDER THE SPANISH: NATIVE NOBLEWOMEN ENTER THE MARKET ECONOMY
- VII. WOMEN OF THE PEASANTRY
- VIII. POLITICAL DISFRANCHISEMENT
- IX. CULTURAL DEFIANCE: THE SORCERY WEAPON
- X. WOMEN OF THE PUNA
- XI. A PROPOSAL
- Appendix: Ayllu, Tributed Ayllu, and Gender
- Glossary
- A Note on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index