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Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
Irene Marsha Silverblatt
Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
Irene Marsha Silverblatt
When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpire 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.
302 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 21, 1987 |
ISBN13 | 9780691022581 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 216 × 143 × 18 mm · 398 g |
Language | English |
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