Reading Inca history

by Julien, Catherine J.

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At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History, Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories. The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an offic…

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  • Full title :Reading Inca history / Catherine Julien.

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At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History, Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories. The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an official account of Inca dynastic genealogy and a series of life histories of Inca rulers.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2000.

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Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 8 août 2011).

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • oclc:ocn748910178
  • LC Classification:F3429
  • Dewey Decimal:985/.019/072

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