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Routledge Library Editions INDIANS OF THE ANDES ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Routledge Library Editions Anthropology and Ethnography SOUTH AMERICA In 4 Volumes I The Demise of a Rural Economy Gudeman II Relationships, Residence and the Individual Gudeman III Indians of the Andes Osborne IV The People of Aritama Reichel- Dolmatoff INDIANS OF THE ANDES Aymaras and Quechuas HAROLD OSBORNE ROUTLEDG RTayoloru &t Flreandcisg Gero up E LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1932 Reprinted in 2004 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Transferred to Digital Printing 2009 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in Routledge Library Editions - Anthropology and Ethnography. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Indians of the Andes ISBN 0-415-32556-0 (set) ISBN 0-415-33044-0 Miniset: South America Series: Routledge Library Editions- Anthropology and Ethnography INDIANS OF T HE ANDES AYMARAS AND QUECHUAS by HAROLD OSBORNE ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane London First published in 1952 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane London E.C. 4 Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing Services Limited Bristol To friends in Bolivia and Peru CONTENTS INTRODUCTION page xi I. DARKEST ORIGINS 1 II. VANDALS OF HISTORY 15 III. MYTH AND ARCHAEOLOGY 42 IV. THE INCA IN LEGEND AND HISTORY 80 V. UNDER INCA RULE 115 VI. UNDER SPANISH RULE 157 VII. THE INDIAN TODAY AND TOMORROW 201 BIBLIOGRAPHY 252 INDEX 260 V This page intentionally left blank ILLUSTRATIONS (at the End of the Book) 1. Portrait vase from Tihuanacu (black on red). Height 41/4 inches. (The bulge in the right cheek represents the coca quid) 2. Whistling jar, Chimu (black). Height 71/4 inches 3. Portrait jar from Chancay (red and black on white). Height 12 inches 4. Whistling jar, Chimu (black). Height 71/4 inches 5. Zoomorphic jar, Chimu (black monochrome), rep- resenting head of the Badaño, a local deer. Height 7 inches 6. Terracotta figure, Chimu (red and black on white). Height 91/2 inches 7. Water jar, Chicama Valley (Mochica) (red on white). Height 10 inches 8. Terracotta figure, Chancay (black on white). Height 81/4 inches 9. Modern Indian terracotta from Southern Peru. Height 41/4 inches 10. Modern Indian terracotta from Southern Peru. Height 41/2 inches (The above are all from the author's collection) 11. Stone of Worship in the Temple to the Sun near the top of the Fortress of Ollantaytambo. The five monoliths of red porphyry from which this altar is constructed were quarried high in the hills across the valley and measure from 3.10 metres to 4.27 metres in height, 1.35 metres to 2.28 metres in width and 1.30 to 1.88 metres in depth 12. Prehistoric Perron at Tihuanacu. The seven steps are each cut from a single block of stone, except the top two, which are from one block 13. Quechua Indians in the Plaza at Pisac near Cuzco vii
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