The two faces of Inca history [electronic resource] : dualism in the narratives and cosmology of ancient Cuzco / by Isabel Yaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaya, Isabel.

Series:

The Early Americas: History and Culture 3.

The early Americas: history and culture ; vol. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incas--Peru--Cuzco--Historiography.

Incas.

Incas--Peru--Cuzco--Kings and rulers.

Inca cosmology--Peru--Cuzco.

Inca cosmology.

Inca calendar--Peru--Cuzco.

Inca calendar.

Cuzco (Peru)--History--Sources.

Cuzco (Peru).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The historical narratives of the Inca dynasty, known to us through Spanish records, present several discrepancies that scholarship has long attributed to the biases and agendas of colonial actors. Drawing on a redefinition of royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of primary sources, this book restores the pre-Hispanic voices embedded in the chronicles. It identifies two distinctive bodies of Inca oral traditions, each of which encloses a mutually conflicting representation of the past that, considered together, reproduces patterns of Cuzco’s moiety division. Building on this new insight, the author revisits dual representations in the cosmology and ritual calendar of the ruling elite. The result is a fresh contribution to ethnohistorical works that have explored native ways of constructing history.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Making History

Filiation is History

Inca and Local Elites

The Ancestral Rulers of the Dry Season

Epics of the Old Sun

The Inca Calendar and Its Transition Periods

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-23387-3

OCLC:

812197820

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004233874 DOI