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Record Nr.

UNISA996248006803316

Autore

MacCormack Sabine

Titolo

Religion in the Andes : Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru / / Sabine MacCormack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , [1993]

©[1993]

ISBN

1-4008-4369-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 488 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

299.895

Soggetti

Missions

Incas - Religion

Incas - Historiography

History

Peru

Andes Region

Peru History Conquest, 1522-1548

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [461]-480) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- GRATIARUM ACTIO -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- PROLOGUE: THEMES AND ARGUMENTS -- I REALITY REPRESENTED IN THE IMAGINATION -- II INVASION OF PERU AND FIRST CONTACTS, 1532-1535 -- III THE INCAS AND THEIR SPANISH HISTORIANS, 1535-1552 -- IV ANDEAN SACRED SPACE AND TIME, 1552-1583 -- V THE IMPACT OF THEORY: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS ON CULTURE, IMAGINATION, AND IDOLATRY, CIRCA 1560 -- VI THE MIND OF THE MISSIONARY: JOSE DE ACOSTA ON ACCOMMODATION AND EXTIRPATION, CIRCA 1590 -- VII THE INCA AND HIS GODS: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY IN THE ANDES -- VIII RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: GARCILASO DE LA VEGA AND SOME PERUVIAN READERS, 1609-1639 -- IX THE GREAT DIVIDE: ANDEAN RELIGION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, 1621-1653 -- EPILOGUE: VISION, IMAGINATION, AND SOCIETY -- GLOSSARY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.