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Chankas and the Priest:

A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru
  • ISBN-13: 9780271071237
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Sabine Hyland
  • Price: AUD $54.99
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  • Local release date: 01/12/2017
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, told through a narrative of the crimes committed by a priest, Juan Bautista de Albadán, in the early 1600s.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Setting Out

Part I

2 The Crimes

3 The Priest

4 The Library

5 The Dinner Party

6 The Funeral

Part II

7 The Kuraka

8 The Rivalry

Conclusion: The Aftermath

Appendix: The Chankas Prior to the Spanish Invasion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“By exploring and analyzing the role of cruelty of Albadán in the context of the Chanka social structure, Hyland offers a detailed history of a singular moment in the history of European colonization in Latin America.”

—Celso Luiz Terzetti Filho, International Journal of Latin American Religions

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