Invaders as Ancestors : : On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes /

Invaders as Ancestors : : On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes / / Peter Gose.

Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders a...

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Gose, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2008
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anthropological Horizons
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Orthography
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Viracochas: Ancestors, Deities, and Apostles
  • 3. Diseases and Separatism
  • 4. Reducción and the Struggle over B
  • 5. Strategies of Coexistence
  • 6. Ayllus in Transition
  • 7. The Rise of the Mountain Spirits
  • 8. Ancestral Reconfigurations in the Ethnographic Record
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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