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Reading Inca history /
At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History, Catherine Julien f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History, Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories. The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an official account of Inca dynastic genealogy and a series of life histories of Inca rulers. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) |
| Premios: | Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2000 |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587294112 1587294117 0877457255 9780877457251 |