Anthropology

Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru

Paperback

Price:
$60.00/£48.00
ISBN:
Published:
Jun 6, 1993
1991
Pages:
516
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
56 illustrations, 2 maps
Main_subject:
Anthropology
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Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.