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Autore |
Julien Catherine J |
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Titolo |
Reading Inca history / / Catherine Julien |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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985.019 |
985.019072 |
985/.019/072 |
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Soggetti |
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Incas - Historiography |
Incas |
Incas - Kings and rulers |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-323 ) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Capac; 3 Genealogy; 4 Life History; 5 Composition; 6 Emergence; 7 Transformation; 8 Origins; 9 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History,Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories.The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an official account of Inca dynastic genealogy and a series of life histories of I |
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