Moon, Sun, and Witches
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A01=Irene Marsha Silverblatt
Aclla
Andean civilizations
Atahualpa
Author_Irene Marsha Silverblatt
Ayllu
Ayni
Bureaucrat
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Category=NHKA
Celibacy
Census
Chicha
Colonialism
Colonization
Commoner
Communal land
Concubinage
Cusco
Deity
Demonology
Emblem
Encomienda
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Exchange of women
Gender role
Gender symbol
Heresy
Huaca
Ideology
Idolatry
Inca Empire
Inca society
Indigenous peoples
Informant
Institution
Inti Raymi
Kinship
Land tenure
Lifeway
Mother goddess
Nobility
Oppression
Pachacuti
Pachamama
Peasant
Persecution
Political economy
Politics
Power structure
Pre-Columbian era
Procession
Progenitor
Religion
Rite
Social class
Social order
Social relation
Social science
Social status
Society
Spaniards
Suggestion
Supay
Supporter
Surname
Tax
The Other Hand
Vassal
Veneration
Viracocha
Virginity
Wealth
Witch-hunt
Witchcraft
Product details
- ISBN 9780691022581
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Irene Silverblatt is professor emerita of cultural anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World.
