Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru

by Irene Marsha Silverblatt

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When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period, such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy, Irene Silverblatt shows...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691022585

ISBN13:9780691022581

Release Date:May 1987

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Americas Ancient Classics Criticism & Theory Folklore History History & Criticism Incan Mythology & Folk Tales Peru Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences South America Women's Studies

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