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The power of huacas : change and resistance in the Andean world of colonial Peru /

The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious spe...

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Main Author:	Brosseder, Claudia, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Indians of South America > Peru > Religion. Indians of South America > Peru > Rites and ceremonies. Shamanism > Peru. Peru > Religious life and customs. Peru > History > 1548-1820. HISTORY / Latin America / South America. RELIGION / Ethnic & Tribal. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.

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