To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes

by Susan E. Ramirez

Book Overview

This book reexamines the structure of Inca society on the eve of the Spanish conquest. The author argues that native Andean cosmology, which centered on the idea of divine rulership, principally organized the indigenous political economy as well as spatial and socio-kinship systems.

Ram rez begins by establishing that the phrase "el Cuzco," picked up from the native peoples by the Spanish invaders, referred not only to a place but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804749213
• ISBN13: 9780804749213
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.6"