[PDF.06ij] The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

[PDF.of76] The Power of Huacas: Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

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 | #3005070 in Books |  2014-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.25 x6.00l,1.76 | File type: PDF | 478 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The Spanish couldn't stamp out Latin American customs.|By B. Wolinsky|Claudia Brosseder’s book portrays pre-Columbian religion as the unifying factor among Peru’s natives. The term Huaca (wak’a in the original language) means “sacred object” or some inanimate structure, like a burial mound, where spirits were thought to reside. It’s not exclu| |"Brosseder combines insights from history, anthropology, and art history (how depictions of saints, of confession, of hell, changed over time) to create a compelling narrative that is as powerful as it is surprising. . . . Very few books attempt to do what the

Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion, 2015

The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists and the coloni...

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