Description: Further DetailsTitle: Moon, Sun, and WitchesCondition: NewSubtitle: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial PeruISBN-10: 0691022585EAN: 9780691022581ISBN: 9780691022581Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/21/1987Description: When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy. Irene Silverblatt shows how Inca rulers used their Sun and Moon traditions as methods of controlling women and the Andean peoples the Incas conquered. She then explores the process by which the Spaniards employed European male and female imageries to establish their own rule in Peru and to make new inroads on the power of native women, particularly poor peasant women. Harassed economically and abused sexually, Andean women fought back, earning in the process the Spaniards' condemnation as "witches." Fresh from the European witch hunts that damned women for susceptibility to heresy and diabolic influence, Spanish clerics were predisposed to charge politically disruptive poor women with witchcraft.Professor Silverblatt shows that these very accusations provided women with an ideology of rebellion and a method for defending their culture.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 369gAuthor: Irene Marsha SilverblattGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, HistoryRelease Year: 1987 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Moon, Sun, and Witches
Title: Moon, Sun, and Witches
Subtitle: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
ISBN-10: 0691022585
EAN: 9780691022581
ISBN: 9780691022581
Release Date: 05/21/1987
Release Year: 1987
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Moon, Sun, and Witches : Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1987
Subject: Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era, Sociology / General, Indigenous Studies, Women's Studies
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Irene Marsha Silverblatt
Item Length: 8.4 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
