Incan Insights

Incan Insights

El Inca Garcilaso's Hints to Andean Readers

Examines the "Royal Commentaries" of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and sets forth a new and alternative reading of this foundational text, paying close attention to the indigenous sources and Andean resonance of the work.
  • Content
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Dimensions of Interference: From Andean Oral Discourse to Choral Writing
  • Chapter Two. Comentarios Reales: From Choral Writing to Foundational Discourse
  • Chapter Three. A Syncretic Tropology: Semantic and Symbolic Aspects of the Comentarios
  • Chapter Four. The Cross, Thunderbolt and Rainbow: Iconographie Transpositions and Underlying Symbols
  • Epilogue. Between the Labyrinth's Exit and the Cornerstone: Towards a Critique of the National Subject
  • Bibliography
  • Onomastic Index

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