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At the heart of this book is the controversy over whether Inca history can and should be read as history. Did the Incas narrate a true reflection of their past, and did the Spaniards capture these narratives in a way that can be meaningfully reconstructed? In Reading Inca History,Catherine Julien finds that the Incas did indeed create detectable life histories.The two historical genres that contributed most to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish narratives about the Incas were an official account of Inca dynastic genealogy and a series of life histories of I No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)985.019History and Geography South America Peru History of Peru IncasLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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