TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yaya,Isabel
TI  - The two faces of Inca history: dualism in the narratives and cosmology of ancient Cuzco 
T2  - The early Americas: history and culture
SN  - 9789004233874
AV  - F3429.1.C9 Y38 2012
U1  - 985/.37 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Incas
KW  - Peru
KW  - Cuzco
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Inca cosmology
KW  - Inca calendar
KW  - Cuzco (Peru)
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Making History -- Filiation is History -- Inca and Local Elites -- The Ancestral Rulers of the Dry Season -- Epics of the Old Sun -- The Inca Calendar and Its Transition Periods -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The historical narratives of the Inca dynasty, known to us through Spanish records, present several discrepancies that scholarship has long attributed to the biases and agendas of colonial actors. Drawing on a redefinition of royal descent and a comparative literary analysis of primary sources, this book restores the pre-Hispanic voices embedded in the chronicles. It identifies two distinctive bodies of Inca oral traditions, each of which encloses a mutually conflicting representation of the past that, considered together, reproduces patterns of Cuzco’s moiety division. Building on this new insight, the author revisits dual representations in the cosmology and ritual calendar of the ruling elite. The result is a fresh contribution to ethnohistorical works that have explored native ways of constructing history
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004233874
ER  -