Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas

291 Pages·2004·5.456 MB·English

by  Harold Osborne

Routledge Library Editions
INDIANS OF THE ANDES
ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Routledge Library Editions
Anthropology and Ethnography
SOUTH AMERICA
In 4 Volumes
I The Demise of a Rural Economy Gudeman
II Relationships, Residence and the Individual Gudeman
III Indians of the Andes Osborne
IV The People of Aritama Reichel-
Dolmatoff
INDIANS OF THE ANDES
Aymaras and Quechuas
HAROLD OSBORNE
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Indians of the Andes
ISBN 0-415-32556-0 (set)
ISBN 0-415-33044-0
Miniset: South America
Series: Routledge Library Editions- Anthropology and Ethnography
INDIANS
OF T HE ANDES
AYMARAS AND QUECHUAS
by
HAROLD OSBORNE
ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD
Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane
London
First published in 1952
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited
Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane
London E.C. 4
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To friends
in Bolivia and Peru
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION page xi
I. DARKEST ORIGINS 1
II. VANDALS OF HISTORY 15
III. MYTH AND ARCHAEOLOGY 42
IV. THE INCA IN LEGEND AND HISTORY 80
V. UNDER INCA RULE 115
VI. UNDER SPANISH RULE 157
VII. THE INDIAN TODAY AND TOMORROW 201
BIBLIOGRAPHY 252
INDEX 260
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ILLUSTRATIONS
(at the End of the Book)
1. Portrait vase from Tihuanacu (black on red). Height
41/4 inches. (The bulge in the right cheek represents
the coca quid)
2. Whistling jar, Chimu (black). Height 71/4 inches
3. Portrait jar from Chancay (red and black on white).
Height 12 inches
4. Whistling jar, Chimu (black). Height 71/4 inches
5. Zoomorphic jar, Chimu (black monochrome), rep-
resenting head of the Badaño, a local deer. Height
7 inches
6. Terracotta figure, Chimu (red and black on white).
Height 91/2 inches
7. Water jar, Chicama Valley (Mochica) (red on
white). Height 10 inches
8. Terracotta figure, Chancay (black on white). Height
81/4 inches
9. Modern Indian terracotta from Southern Peru.
Height 41/4 inches
10. Modern Indian terracotta from Southern Peru.
Height 41/2 inches
(The above are all from the author's collection)
11. Stone of Worship in the Temple to the Sun near the
top of the Fortress of Ollantaytambo. The five
monoliths of red porphyry from which this altar is
constructed were quarried high in the hills across
the valley and measure from 3.10 metres to 4.27
metres in height, 1.35 metres to 2.28 metres in
width and 1.30 to 1.88 metres in depth
12. Prehistoric Perron at Tihuanacu. The seven steps are
each cut from a single block of stone, except the
top two, which are from one block
13. Quechua Indians in the Plaza at Pisac near Cuzco
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