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Pastoral Quechua : the history of Christian translation in colonial Peru, 1550-1650 / Alan Durston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durston, Alan, 1970-
- Series:
- History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds.
- History, languages, and cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quechua language--Peru--History.
- Quechua language.
- Quechua language--Peru--Religious aspects.
- Indians of South America--Missions--Peru.
- Indians of South America.
- Peru--Languages--Political aspects.
- Peru.
- Peru--History--1548-1820.
- Catholic Church--Missions--Peru.
- Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 395 p. : map.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores different aspects of the story of how the Spanish priests and missionaries of the Catholic Church in post-conquest Peru systematically attempted to "incarnate" Christianity in Quechua, a large family of languages and dialects spoken by the dense Andes populations once united under the Inca empire.
- Contents:
- Background
- Diversity and experimentation : 1550s and 60s
- Reform and standardization : 1570s and 80s
- The questione della lingua and the politics of vernacular competence (1570s-1640s)
- The heyday of pastoral Quechua (1590s-1640s)
- Pastoral Quechua linguistics
- Text, genre, and poetics
- God, Christ, and Mary in the Andes
- Performance and contextualization.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-380) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268077983
- 0268077983
- 9780268077655
- 0268077657
- OCLC:
- 608512646
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