{"product_id":"moon-sun-and-witches-gender-ideologies-and-class-in-inca-and-colonial-peru-9780691022581","title":"Moon, Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Umpire\u003cbr\u003eworshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, \u003cbr\u003ewhile women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca\u003cbr\u003equeens, as founders of female dynasties. In the pre-Inca period such\u003cbr\u003enotions of parallel descent were expressions of complementarity between\u003cbr\u003emen and women. Examining the interplay between gender ideologies\u003cbr\u003eand political hierarchy, Irene Silverblatt shows how Inca rulers\u003cbr\u003eused their Sun and Moon traditions as methods of controlling\u003cbr\u003ewomen and the Andean peoples the Incas conquered. She then explores\u003cbr\u003ethe process by which the Spaniards employed European male\u003cbr\u003eand female imageries to establish their own rule in Peru and to make\u003cbr\u003enew inroads on the power of native women, particularly poor peasant\u003cbr\u003ewomen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarassed economically and abused sexually, Andean women\u003cbr\u003efought back, earning in the process the Spaniards' condemnation as\u003cbr\u003ewitches. Fresh from the European witch hunts that damned\u003cbr\u003ewomen for susceptibility to heresy and diabolic influence, Spanish\u003cbr\u003eclerics were predisposed to charge politically disruptive poor women\u003cbr\u003ewith witchcraft. Silverblatt shows that these very accusations\u003cbr\u003eprovided women with an ideology of rebellion and a method for\u003cbr\u003edefending their culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irene Marsha Silverblatt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.49w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691022581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrene Silverblatt\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of cultural anthropology at Duke University. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eModern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40174179647603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_dd74de3e-0732-4b93-a1ac-6191a69fa997.jpg?v=1655298367","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/moon-sun-and-witches-gender-ideologies-and-class-in-inca-and-colonial-peru-9780691022581","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}