Instructor: Lydia Fossa, Ph.D.
Room: Psych 204
Time: T Th 11>12:15
Office: Modern Languages 533 Office
Hours: T Th 4-5 and by appointment
Email: lydiafos@u.arizona.edu
This
course will explore the first interpretations of Andean myths and symbols I will compare them to contemporary
discoveries or scientific milestones that confirm or negate those initial
interpretations.
The
class will achieve these goals by contrasting the information contained in
sixteenth century texts with those of recent findings of historical,
archaeological, aesthetic values.
The
class will research two main themes during the semester:
A) The Inka:
Political leader or deity?
B)
Khipu:
History or Accounting?
The
classes as well as the discussions will be conducted in English or
Spanish. Sixteenth century texts will
be read in Spanish, twentieth century texts will be either in English or in
Spanish.
Quizzes
and in-class exercises 30%
Class
participation 20%
January 10 The
Inka: Monarchy or Polyarchy?
Los Incas
15-17
22-24
29-31 Historia General
Llamada Indica
February 5-7
12-14 The Inka:
Political leader or deity?
19-21 Historia del
Tawantinsuyu
26-28
March 5-7
13 Spring Break
19-21 Khipu: History or Accounting?
Introducción
al estudio de los quipus
26-28 El señorío de los
Yngas
April 2-4 Nueva coronica y buen gobierno
9-11
16-18 Code of the quipu
23-25
April-May 30-2 “From
Knots to Narratives…” – “Two Khipu, One
Narrative”
Notables daños
Cieza de León, Pedro Crónica del Perú. Segunda Parte, El señorío de los Yngas, Ed., Prolg. y
Notas, F. Cantù, Ed. PUC, Lima, 1985
Guaman Poma de Ayala,
Felipe, Nueva coronica y buen gobierno [1615?], Edición y prólogo F. Pease
G.Y., Vocabulario y traducciones de J. Szeminski, Ed. Fondo de Cultura
Económica, Lima, 1993
Ondegardo, Polo Notables
daños de no guardar a los yndios sus fueros... [1571] (El mundo de los incas) Laura González y Alicia Alonso, eds.,
Historia 16, Madrid. 1990
Sarmiento de Gamboa,
Pedro Historia General Llamada Indica [1572}, Miraguano Ed. y Ed. Polifemo, Madrid, 1988
Ascher, Marcia and Robert Ascher Code of the quipu : a study in media, mathematics, and culture, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1981
Pease, Franklin Los
Incas, Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, 1991
Radicatti di Primegio,
Carlos “Introducción al estudio de los
quipus” in Usca paucar, Lima
1949-1950
Rostworowski de Diez
Canseco, María Historia del Tawantinsuyu, IEP,CONCYTEC, Lima, 1988
Salomon, Frank “Los quipus y libros de la Tupicocha de
hoy: uninforme preliminar” in Arqueología, antropología e historia en los
Andes. Homenaje a María Rostworowski,
IEP and BCR, Lima, 1997
Someda, Hidefuji El
imperio de los Incas. Imagen del
Tawantinsuyu creada por los cronistas, Ed. PUC, Lima, 1999
Urton, Gary “From Knots to Narratives: Reconstructing the Art of Historical Record
Keeping in the Andes from Spanish Transcriptions of Inka Khipus” in Ethnohistory,
Volume 45, Number 3, Summer 1998
The
History of a Myth. Pacariqtambo and the
Origin of the Inkas, U of Texas Press, Austin, 1990