To Feed and Be Fed

Susan Ramírez holds the Neville G. Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University. She is the author of The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru (Stanford University Press, 1996).

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments @toc2:Chapter 1A PERSONAL ODYSSEY @toc1:Part ISOVEREIGNTY @toc2:Chapter 2EL CUZCO: A RECONSIDERATION OF SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORIALITY AND THE INCA STATE @toc1:Part IIDIVINE RULERSHIP @toc2:Chapter 3KINGSHIP AND THE GODS Chapter 4TO FEED AND BE FED: CURACAL LEGITIMACY AND COSMOLOGY @toc1:Part IIITHE PRACTICE OF COSMOLOGICAL POWER @toc2:Chapter 5RITES OF RULE @toc1:Part IVTHE SOCIAL BASES OF AUTHORITY @toc2:Chapter 6A SENSE OF SELVES @toc4:Notes Bibliography Index

"This is an excellent and thought-provoding book, one that challenges the reader to reassess preconceptions of the nature of Inca religion, the characteristics of Inca leaders, the reason for the polity's rapid expansion, and the foundations of its economic structure." -Noble David Cook, Florida International University