Death and Conversion in the Andes Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670
When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land their descendants occupied, while the liv...
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| Format: | E-Book Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Notre Dame, Ind
University of Notre Dame Press
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1 |
| Schriftenreihe: | History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds |
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| ISBN: | 0268040281, 9780268040284, 9780268091729, 0268091722, 9780268206048, 026820604X |
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| Zusammenfassung: | When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of
the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion
throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the
living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land
their descendants occupied, while the living honored the presence
of the dead in numerous aspects of daily life. A central purpose of
the Spanish missionary endeavor was to suppress the Andean cult of
the ancestors and force the indigenous people to adopt their
Catholic, legal, and cultural views concerning death. In her book,
Gabriela Ramos reveals the extent to which Christianizing death was
essential for the conversion of the indigenous population to
Catholicism.
Ramos argues that understanding the relation between death and
conversion in the Andes involves not only considering the obvious
attempts to destroy the cult of the dead, but also investigating a
range of policies and strategies whose application demanded
continuous negotiation between Spaniards and Andeans. Drawing from
historical, archaeological, and anthropological research and a
wealth of original archival materials, especially the last wills
and testaments of indigenous Andeans, Ramos looks at the
Christianization of death as it affected the lives of inhabitants
of two principal cities of the Peruvian viceroyalty: Lima, the new
capital founded on the Pacific coast by the Spanish, and Cuzco, the
old capital of the Incas in the Andean highlands. Her study of the
wills in particular demonstrates the strategies that Andeans
devised to submit to Spanish law and Christian doctrine, preserve
bonds of kinship, and cement their place in colonial society. |
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| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-337) and index |
| ISBN: | 0268040281 9780268040284 9780268091729 0268091722 9780268206048 026820604X |