The Chankas and the Priest - A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru

About the author

Sabine Hyland is Reader in Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. She is the author of Gods of the Andes: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Andean Christianity, also published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

Presents the story of the Chanka people of Peru, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, told through a narrative of the crimes committed by a priest, Juan Bautista de Albadán, in the early 1600s.

Product details

• Authors: Sabine Hyland, Sabine (Reader in Social Anthropology Hyland, Hyland Sabine
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2016
• EAN: 9780271071220
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07122-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); RELIGION / History, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, History of Religion, Sociology & anthropology, History of the Americas, Spanish Civil War, HISTORY / Europe / Spain