Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru

by Irene Marsha Silverblatt

Book Overview

When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period, such notions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between men and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies and political hierarchy, Irene Silverblatt shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691022585
• ISBN13: 9780691022581
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"