Susan Elizabeth Ramírez

Broschiertes Buch

To Feed and Be Fed

The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes

Beschreibung

This book reexamines the structure of Inca society on the eve of the Spanish conquest. The author argues that native Andean cosmology, which centered on the idea of divine rulership, principally organized the indigenous political economy as well as spatial and socio-kinship systems. >

Autor

Susan Ramírez holds the Neville G. Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru (Stanford University Press, 1996).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780804749220
• ISBN-10: 0804749221
• Artikelnr.: 22176380