An account of the philosophical conceptions of power held by the
Amuesha, a priestly society of the Peruvian Amazon. It reveals the
relationship the Amuesha see between cosmogony and political
morality. Love is a crucial component of both legitimate knowledge
and legitimate power. The distinction between divine and mortal
love pervades this priestly cosmology and moral philosophy, making
it central both to the playing out of hierarchical relationships in
everyday life and to a millenaristic theology of salvation. This
volume will be important to students of Amozonian and Andean
peoples, to specialists in comparative religion, and to those more
generally interested in the complex relationship between systems of
morality and political power.
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