Product Description: One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished...read more

David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed between 1600-1616) offers an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial Inca society and culture, the Spanish conquest of Peru (1532-1572), and life under the corrupt Spanish colonial administration. An Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background and discusses the author's literary and linguistic innovations. Maps, a glossary of terms, and seventy-five of Guaman Poma's ink drawings are also included.

Product Description: Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva coronica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Library, Copenhagen (www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma/), this new book by one of the world's most prominent Guaman Poma scholars contains a survey, in English and Spanish, of recent research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Collection of author's essays written over the last 25 years on the Cashinawa of the Curanja and upper Purâus Rivers in eastern Peru. Includes a sequence of short ethnographies on diverse aspects of Cashinawa society and culture: subsistence activities,gender roles and sexuality, social organization, political organization, religion, and culture change'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpireworshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes,while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Incaqueens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period suchnotions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity betweenmen and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologiesand political hierarchy. Irene Silverblatt shows how Inca rulersused their Sun and Moon traditions as methods of controllingwomen and the Andean peoples the Incas conquered. She then exploresthe process by which the Spaniards employed European maleand female imageries to establish their own rule in Peru and to makenew inroads on the power of native women, particularly poor peasantwomen. Harassed economically and abused sexually, Andean womenfought back, earning in the process the Spaniards' condemnation as"witches." Fresh from the European witch hunts that damnedwomen for susceptibility to heresy and diabolic influence, Spanishclerics were predisposed to charge politically disruptive poor womenwith witchcraft. Professor Silverblatt shows that these very accusationsprovided women with an ideology of rebellion and a method fordefending their culture.

Product Description: Book by Stein, William W.