The Jesuit and the Incas: The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, (History, Languages & Cultures of the Spanish & Portuguese Worlds) - Softcover

Hyland, Sabine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472030418 ISBN 13: 9780472030415

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2004

Synopsis

The Jesuit and the Incas The story of the life and untimely death of a persecuted priest in colonial Peru and the controversy over mysterious, recently discovered documents about him Full description

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Review:

"[A] refreshingly lucid account of an important but poorly known figure in colonial Latin American history."
-Richard L. Burger, Yale University

"This is a beautifully written, deeply informed and highly informative work. . . . [Hyland] has cast a bright light into a corner of early colonial Latin American scholarship that we had all but abandoned hope of ever seeing into very clearly."
-Gary Urton, Harvard University

." .. . Hyland provides insight into the life of the Jesuit scholar, indigenous historian, teacher, and religious comparativist. Part history, part detective novel, the book plunges into various controversies: Christianity and indigenous Inca religion; Jesuits and the Spanish Crown; Valera's own mixed heritage; and even Valera and the Jesuits who imprisoned and then exiled him, despite his loyalty to the order. . . . Valera takes his place among ethnographers such as Acosta and Native rights advocates such as Las Casas, and Hyland's book provides captivating access to his unique contribution to history. Highly Recommended."
--Choice

About the Author:

Sabine Hyland is Co-director of a multidisciplinary project studying the Chanka people of Peru. She holds a doctoral degree in anthropology from Yale, and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at St. Norbert College.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0472030418
• ISBN 13: 9780472030415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272