Andean syncretism (Other Keyword)
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The Study of an Inca Huaca in a Modern Context (2015)
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What happens when two imperial ideologies collide? How and why do indigenous objects of worship continue to be sacred 500 years after that collision? After defeating the Inca, the Spaniards during the late sixteenth and seventeenth century attempted to eradicate Inca religion and its influences from the indigenous memory during the famous extirpation of idolatry. While conversion to Christianity was largely successful, it also initiated a process of fusion as Andean elements subtly integrated...