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Of Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices

Of Summits and Sacrifice: An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices

Besom, Thomas

Paperback

Native American HistoryReligion General Archaeology

ISBN10: 0292725728
ISBN13: 9780292725720
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous authors to record the details of the religious rituals that the Inkas believed were vital for consolidating their conquests. Synthesizing these arresting accounts that span three centuries, Thomas Besom presents a wealth of descriptive data on the Inka practices of human sacrifice and mountain worship, supplemented by archaeological evidence.

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