Book
Moon, sun, and witches: gender ideologies and class in Inca and colonial Peru
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.J. • Published In 1987 • Pages:
By: Silverblatt, Irene Marsha.
Abstract
Silverblatt discusses the the status of, treatment of, and ideologies about women before the Incan conquest, under the Inca before the Spanish conquest, and under the Spanish during colonial Peru. How this changed during this time period is explored. However, only the information pertinent to the Inca up to 1600 A.D. were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Material) subjects. Silverblatt states that long before the Inca came on the scene, 'Andean peoples interpreted the workings of nature through an ideology of gender complementarity. Male and female interdependent forces were also ancestor-heroes and ancestor-heroines of the mortals whose gender they shared. Constructing the supernatural with familiar materials, Andean women perceived kinship and descent to follow lines of women, just as in parallel, men saw themselves as descending from and creating lines of men….[Later,] the Incans manipulated popular structures of gender complementarity and parallelism to coax [the conquered] into acquiescing in their loss of autonomy.' (page xxviii). This gender parallelism allowed women to control their own political and religious institutions and to become AYLLU leaders before and during the Incan conquest.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Central Andes
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnohistorian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry ; 2003
- Field Date
- 1975-1978
- Coverage Date
- 800 BP-400 BP (1200 A.D.-1600 A.D.)
- Coverage Place
- Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru
- Notes
- Irene Silverblatt
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index
- LCCN
- 86022514
- LCSH
- Incas