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Death and Conversion in the Andes - Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 (Hardcover)
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Death and Conversion in the Andes - Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 (Hardcover)
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds
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When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the
ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion
throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the
living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land
their descendants occupied, while the living honored the presence
of the dead in numerous aspects of daily life. A central purpose of
the Spanish missionary endeavor was to suppress the Andean cult of
the ancestors and force the indigenous people to adopt their
Catholic, legal, and cultural views concerning death. In her book,
Gabriela Ramos reveals the extent to which Christianizing death was
essential for the conversion of the indigenous population to
Catholicism. Ramos argues that understanding the relation between
death and conversion in the Andes involves not only considering the
obvious attempts to destroy the cult of the dead, but also
investigating a range of policies and strategies whose application
demanded continuous negotiation between Spaniards and Andeans.
Drawing from historical, archaeological, and anthropological
research and a wealth of original archival materials, especially
the last wills and testaments of indigenous Andeans, Ramos looks at
the Christianization of death as it affected the lives of
inhabitants of two principal cities of the Peruvian viceroyalty:
Lima, the new capital founded on the Pacific coast by the Spanish,
and Cuzco, the old capital of the Incas in the Andean highlands.
Her study of the wills in particular demonstrates the strategies
that Andeans devised to submit to Spanish law and Christian
doctrine, preserve bonds of kinship, and cement their place in
colonial society.
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