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One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were discovered in the collection of the Fundacion Bartolome March in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.Narrative of the Incas presents the first complete English translation of the original manuscript of this key document. Although written by a Spaniard, it presents an authentic Inca worldview, drawn from the personal experiences and oral traditions told to Betanzos by his Inca wife, Dona Angelina, and other members of her aristocratic family who lived during the reigns of the last Inca rulers, Huayna Capac Huascar and Atahualpa. Betanzos wrote a history of the Inca empire that focuses on the major rulers and the contributions each one made to the growth of the empire and of Inca culture.Filled with new insights into Inca politics, marriage, laws, the calendar, warfare, and other matters, Narrative of the Incas is essential reading for everyone interested in this ancient civilization.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Narrative of the Incas
• Author: Juan de Bentanzos, Roland Hamilton, Dana Buchanan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780292755598
• ISBN: 0292755597
• ID: 04873834
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 558 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 151 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 1996

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