Inca Religion and CustomsUniversity of Texas Press, 28/06/2010 - 279 páginas Completed in 1653, Father Bernabe Cobo's Historia del Nuevo Mundo is an important source of information on pre-conquest and colonial Spanish America. Though parts of the work are now lost, the remaining sections which have been translated offer valuable insights into Inca culture and Peruvian history. Inca Religion and Customs is the second translation by Roland Hamilton from Cobo's massive work. Beginning where History of the Inca Empire left off, it provides a vast amount of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples. Despite his obvious Christian bias as a Jesuit priest, Cobo objectively and thoroughly describes many of the religious practices of the Incas. He catalogs their origin myths, beliefs about the afterlife, shrines and objects of worship, sacrifices, sins, festivals, and the roles of priests, sorcerers, and doctors. The section on Inca customs is equally inclusive. Cobo covers such topics as language, food and shelter, marriage and childrearing, agriculture, warfare, medicine, practical crafts, games, and burial rituals. Because the Incas apparently had no written language, such postconquest documents are an important source of information about Inca life and culture. Cobo's work, written by one who wanted to preserve something of the indigenous culture that his fellow Spaniards were fast destroying, is one of the most accurate and highly respected. |
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... took on many new rites and ceremonies, and though they eliminated some, they always kept loading the people down with more of them. They were prompted to make such changes because they realized that in this way they improved their ...
... took on many new rites and ceremonies, and though they eliminated some, they always kept loading the people down with more of them. They were prompted to make such changes because they realized that in this way they improved their ...
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... took the trouble to look for the cause of each thing, like the pagans, and though the Indians were mistaken in their inquiry, not even the ancients, who were so given to scientific study and investigation into the nature of things, ever ...
... took the trouble to look for the cause of each thing, like the pagans, and though the Indians were mistaken in their inquiry, not even the ancients, who were so given to scientific study and investigation into the nature of things, ever ...
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... took place at Pachacama, a coastal town four leagues from the city of Lima. The common people consider this to be more credible because of the etymology of the name Pachacama, which means creator of the world. This name is still used ...
... took place at Pachacama, a coastal town four leagues from the city of Lima. The common people consider this to be more credible because of the etymology of the name Pachacama, which means creator of the world. This name is still used ...
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Índice
XXXIII | 151 |
XXXIV | 154 |
XXXV | 158 |
XXXVI | 160 |
XXXVII | 164 |
XXXVIII | 168 |
XXXIX | 172 |
XL | 179 |
XIV | 39 |
XV | 44 |
XVI | 47 |
XVII | 51 |
XVIII | 63 |
XIX | 78 |
XX | 85 |
XXI | 91 |
XXII | 108 |
XXIII | 109 |
XXIV | 115 |
XXV | 118 |
XXVI | 122 |
XXVII | 126 |
XXVIII | 135 |
XXIX | 139 |
XXX | 142 |
XXXI | 145 |
XXXII | 149 |
XLI | 181 |
XLII | 185 |
XLIII | 190 |
XLIV | 194 |
XLV | 198 |
XLVI | 200 |
XLVII | 204 |
XLVIII | 211 |
XLIX | 215 |
L | 223 |
LI | 227 |
LII | 231 |
LIII | 234 |
LIV | 239 |
LV | 241 |
LVI | 243 |
LVII | 246 |
LVIII | 250 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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