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

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Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru - Silverblatt, Irene Marsha
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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. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy. Irene Silverblatt shows how Inca rulers used their Sun and Moon traditions as methods of controlling ...

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Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru 1987, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691022581

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Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru 1987, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691077260

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