Invaders as ancestors
Subtitle: on the intercultural making and unmaking of Spanish colonialism in the Andes
By: Peter Gose.
Series: Anthropological horizons -- 36; Anthropological horizons -- 36.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780802098764; 9780802096173
Subjects: Ancestor worship -- Andes Region; Acculturation -- Andes Region; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Religion; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration -- History; Andes Region -- Religious life and customs; Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Religious life and customs; Andes Region -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-367) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Viracochas : ancestors, deities, and apostles; title: Diseases and separatism; title: Reduccion and the struggle over burial; title: Strategies of coexistence; title: Ayllus in transition; title: The rise of the mountain spirits; title: Ancestral reconfigurations in the ethnographic record.