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" Moon, sun, and witches : "
Irene Silverblatt.
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879770
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Silverblatt, Irene.
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Moon, sun, and witches : : gender ideologies and class in Inca and colonial Peru /\ Irene Silverblatt.
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, ©1987.
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Princeton paperbacks
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xxxiii, 266 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm.
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0691022585
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: 0691077266
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: 9780691022581
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: 9780691077260
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
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| Contents
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I. Producing Andean Existence -- II. Gender Parallelism in Local Communities -- III. Gender Parallelism in Imperial Order -- IV. Ideologies of Conquest in the Ayllu -- V. Transformations: the conquest hierarchy and imperial rule -- VI. Under the Spanish: Native Noblewomen Enter the Market -- VII. Women of the Peasantry -- VIII. Political Disfranchisement -- IX. Cultural Defiance: the Sorcery Weapon -- X. Women of the Puna -- XI. A Proposal.
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"The myths and cosmologies of non-Western peoples are not just histories, relating the world as it once was, nor are they pseudo-histories, justifying the world as it has come to be. Instead, they are tools of struggle: ideologies both producing and produced by the effort to create society in someone's image. On them are written the memories and hopes of forgotten people, yearning for power over their - and others' - lives. Such is Irene Silverblatt's argument as she documents religious/ideological struggle in pre- and post-conquest Peru. Heavily influenced by Marxist anthropology and by debates about the social construction of gender, she examines religious and gender ideologies in the Andes prior to the Inca conquest, during their short reign (1450-1532), and after the coming of the Spanish. Though the pre-Inca period is relatively opaque Silverblatt argues that the sexes were relatively equal. Men's and women's work, men's and women's religion each upheld a portion of the universe. Women inherited from women, worshipped female gods and directed their cults; men inherited from men, and ruled cults whose gods were male. Gender was the dominant screen through which these people viewed life - and both sides could play. The Incas shared this gender-defined worldview, but used it to justify their conquest and control. They worshipped Viracocha, whom they claimed as the an-drogynous pro-genitor of Sun and Moon, respectively the ancestors of men and women."--Www.jstor.org (Nov. 9, 2010).
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Inca women.
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Incas-- Social life and customs.
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Indian women-- Peru.
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Indians of South America-- Peru-- Social life and customs.
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Social structure-- Peru-- History.
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Women-- Peru-- History.
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Femmes inca.
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Femmes-- Pérou-- Histoire.
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Inca women.
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Incas (Indiens)-- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Incas-- Social life and customs.
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Indian women.
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Indians of South America-- Social life and customs.
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Social structure.
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Women.
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Geschichte.
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Geschichte.
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Geschlechterrolle.
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Geschlechterrolle.
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Indianer.
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Soziale Stellung.
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Soziale Stellung.
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Indianer.
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Pérou, Conditions sociales, Histoire, Jusqu'à 1548.
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Peru.
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Peru.
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Peru.
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Peru.
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| Dewey Classification
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985/.01/088042
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| LC Classification
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F3429.3.S6S55 1987
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15.85bcl
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985.0122
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MS 9500rvk
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| Parallel Title
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Gender ideologies and class in Inca and colonial Peru
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