History of the Inca Empire An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions

Name: History of the Inca Empire An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions
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ISBN: 9780292730250

ISBN-10: 029273025X

ISBN-13: 9780292730250

Edition: 1979

Authors: Bernabe Cobo, Roland Hamilton, John H. Rowe

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The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo' massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, and dress of the Indians as well as a superb treatise on the Incastheir legends, history, and social institutions.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 279
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword by John Howland Rowe


Introduction


A Scientific Outlook of the Seventeenth Century


A Note on the Translation






Concerning the sparse population of America and its causes



Of the names which were given to the natives of the Indies and of their color



Of the physical make-up, body proportions, and facial features of the Indians



Of the natural make-up of the Indians



Of the extreme ignorance and barbarity of the Indians



Of the usages that the Indians have regarding their individual houses, clothing, and sustenance



Of the most general customs common to all of the Indians



In which the same topic is continued



Of the many languages used by the various nations of Indians, and how these all seem to have a common origin



In which all the Indian nations are divided into three categories



On the origin of these peoples of America



In which the same is continued



How the animals and birds that we find here must have come to this land



In which the same topic is continued



In which is given the opinion of those who place within these Occidental Indies the region called Ophir in the Divine Scriptures, to which the ships of Solomon navigated



In which the proposed opinion is refuted



Of another argument with which the same thing is proven as in the last chapter



The same thing is proven with other evidence



The same subject is continued



In which the arguments of the opposing opinion are answered and the location of Ophir is established






Of the former inhabitants of Peru before the Incas reigned



Of the efforts that have been made several times to ascertain the true history of the Incas and the rites and customs of their republic



Of the legendary origin of the Incas, former kings of Peru



Of Manco Capac, the first king of the Incas



Of the second Inca, named Cinchi Roca



Of Lloque Yupanqui, the third Inca



Of Mayta Capac, fourth king of the Incas



Of the Inca Capac Yupanqui, fifth king of Peru



Of the sixth king of Peru, named Inca Roca



Of Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh king



Of Viracocha Inca, eighth king



Of Pachacutic Inca Yupanqui, ninth king



Of the rest of Pachacutic''s victories



Of Tupa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth king



Of the rest of the events in the life of Tupa Inca Yupanqui



Of Guayna Capac, the last king of the Incas



In which the deeds of Guayna Capac are continued



Of the Inca brothers Huascar and Atauhualpa



Of the rest of the things that happened in this war



Of the rest of the Incas, sons of Guayna Capac who had the king''s fringe



Of the sons of Manco Inca who maintained the title of king in Vilcabamba



Of the name and locality occupied by the Kingdom of the Incas, and how these kings came to rule so many people and provinces



How the Incas administered newly conquered lands by putting in these lands outsiders whom they called mitimaes, and the types there were of them



How the Incas organized the people that they subjugated into towns, and the way they arranged the towns



Of the governors, caciques, and other superiors to whom the Incas delegated the governance of their states



Of the laws and punishments with which the Incas governed their kingdom



Of the distinction between nobles and taxpayers that there was in this kingdom, and of the way that the latter had of- paying tribute, and the way the king paid salaries to his ministers and rewarded his vassals for the services that they rendered to him



Of the division that the Inca made of the farmlands, and of the estate and rents that the Inca and Religion received from them



Of the order in which the domesticated livestock was distributed, and the income that the Inca and Religion received in livestock and in clothing from its wool; and how the hunting grounds and woods were royal patrimony



Of the storehouses belonging to the Inca and to Religion, the goo