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Of Summits and Sacrifice : An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices /
In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigeno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- One. Ethnohistory and the Inkas
- Two. Qhapaq Hucha Sacrifice
- Three. Other Types of Sacrifice
- Four. Mountain Worship
- Five. Mountain Offerings
- Six. Reasons for Worshipping Mountains
- Seven. Material Correlates of Mountain Wor
- Eight. Conclusions
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary of Andean Names and Terms
- Reference List
- Index