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Religion in the Andes

Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

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Religion in the Andes

Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843693

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On the Wings of Time

Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

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On the Wings of Time

Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street? Although the Spanish destruction of the Incan empire changed the Andes forever, the civil society that did emerge was not the result of Andeans and Creoles passively absorbing the wisdom of ancient Rome. Rather, Sabine MacCormack proposes that civil society was born of the intellectual endeavors that commenced with the invasion itself, as the invaders sought to understand an array of cultures. Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, MacCormack reveals how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan empire. Tracing the varied events that shaped Peru as a country, MacCormack shows how Roman and classical literature provided a framework for the construal of historical experience. She turns to issues vital to Latin American history, such as the role of language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the founding of cities, to paint a dynamic picture of the genesis of renewed political life in the Andean region. Examining how missionaries, soldiers, native lords, and other writers employed classical concepts to forge new understandings of Peruvian society and history, the book offers a complete reassessment of the ways in which colonial Peru made the classical heritage uniquely its own.

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Princeton University Press

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1400832675

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Religion in the Andes

Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

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Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

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The Shadows of Poetry

Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

By: Sabine MacCormack

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Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

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Univ of California Press

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0520920279

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9780520920279

Men as Women, Women as Men

Changing Gender in Native American Cultures

By: Sabine Lang

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Men as Women, Women as Men

Changing Gender in Native American Cultures

By: Sabine Lang

As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities. This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.

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420

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University of Texas Press

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0292777957

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9780292777958

Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

By: Sabine Maasen,Peter Weingart

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Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

By: Sabine Maasen,Peter Weingart

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge. The focus is on the role of metaphors as powerful catalysts, and the book dissects their role in the construction of theories of knowledge. It is of vital interest to social and cognitive scientists alike.

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Routledge

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1134620306

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The Jesuit and the Incas

The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.

By: Sabine Hyland

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The Jesuit and the Incas

The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.

By: Sabine Hyland

A refreshingly lucid account of an important but poorly known figure in colonial Latin American history."-Richard L. Burger, Yale University "This is a beautifully written, deeply informed and highly informative work. . . . Hyland has cast a bright light into a corner of early colonial Latin American scholarship that we had all but abandoned hope of ever seeing into very clearly."-Gary Urton, Harvard University In the spirit of justice Blas Valera broke all the rules-and paid with his life. Hundreds of years later, his ghost has returned to haunt the official story. But is it the truth, and will it set the record straight? This is the tale of Father Blas Valera, the child of a native Incan woman and Spanish father, caught between the ancient world of the Incas and the conquistadors of Spain. Valera, a Jesuit in sixteenth-century Peru, believed in what to his superiors was pure heresy: that the Incan culture, religion, and language were equal to their Christian counterparts. As punishment for his beliefs he was imprisoned, beaten, and, finally, exiled to Spain, where he died at the hands of English pirates in 1597. Four centuries later, this Incan chronicler had been all but forgotten, until an Italian anthropologist discovered some startling documents in a private Neapolitan collection. The documents claimed, among other things, that Valera's death had been faked by the Jesuits; that he had returned to Peru; and, intriguingly,

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University of Michigan Press

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0472113534

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9780472113538

Gods of the Andes

An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity

By: Blas Valera,Sabine Hyland

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Gods of the Andes

An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity

By: Blas Valera,Sabine Hyland

An English translation of a sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript, by an Inca Jesuit, about Inca religion and the spread of Christianity in colonial Peru. Includes an introductory essay"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271048808

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9780271048802

On the Wings of Time

Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

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On the Wings of Time

Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru

By: Sabine MacCormack

Universals and particulars : themes and persons -- Writing and the pursuit of origins -- Conquest, civil war, and political life -- The emergence of patria : cities and the law -- Works of nature and works of free will -- "The discourse of my life" : what language can do -- The Incas, Rome, and Peru -- Epilogue: Ancient texts : prophecies and predictions, causes and judgments.

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366

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Princeton University Press

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0691126747

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9780691126746

The Chankas and the Priest

A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru

By: Sabine Hyland

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The Chankas and the Priest

A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru

By: Sabine Hyland

How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru? In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chronicles the horrifying story of Father Juan Bautista de Albadán, a Spanish priest to the Chanka people of Pampachiri in Peru from 1601 to 1611. During his reign of terror over his Andean parish, Albadán was guilty of murder, sexual abuse, sadistic torture, and theft from his parishioners, amassing a personal fortune at their expense. For ten years, he escaped punishment for these crimes by deceiving and outwitting his superiors in the colonial government and church administration. Drawing on a remarkable collection of documents found in archives in the Americas and Europe, including a rare cache of Albadán’s candid family letters, Hyland reveals what life was like for the Chankas under this corrupt and brutal priest, and how his actions sparked the instability that would characterize Chanka political and social history for the next 123 years. Through this tale, she vividly portrays the colonial church and state of Peru as well as the history of Chanka ethnicity, the nature of Spanish colonialism, and the changing nature of Chanka politics and kinship from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.

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Penn State Press

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0271077611

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The Shadows of Poetry

Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

By: Sabine MacCormack

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Vergil in the Mind of Augustine

By: Sabine MacCormack

Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers us new insights into the exercise of power and into the social, political, and cultural significance of religious change during the Christianization of the Roman world. Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official lit

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Univ of California Press

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0520920279

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9780520920279

The Illustrated Golden Bough

By: Sir James George Frazer,Mary Douglas,Sabine MacCormack

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The Illustrated Golden Bough

By: Sir James George Frazer,Mary Douglas,Sabine MacCormack

One of the 20th century's most influential books" (Time), Sir James George Frazer's masterwork, The Golden Bough, has become the classic study of the origins of magic and religion. Here is a brilliantly illustrated abridgement of the 12-volume masterpiece that includes 200 illustrations, 100 in color. Large format.

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MacMillan

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0333244923

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9780333244920

Book's by Sabine MacCormack

Religion in the Andes

Religion in the Andes

On the Wings of Time

On the Wings of Time

Religion in the Andes

Religion in the Andes

The Shadows of Poetry

The Shadows of Poetry

Men as Women, Women as Men

Men as Women, Women as Men

Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge

The Jesuit and the Incas

The Jesuit and the Incas

Gods of the Andes

Gods of the Andes

On the Wings of Time

On the Wings of Time

The Chankas and the Priest

The Chankas and the Priest

The Shadows of Poetry

The Shadows of Poetry

The Illustrated Golden Bough

The Illustrated Golden Bough

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