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The Chankas and the Priest: A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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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.

ISBN-13: 9780271071237

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Publication Date: 12-15-2017

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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