Book
Information concerning the religion and government of the Incas
[s.n.] • 3 • Published In 1916 • Pages: HRAF MS: ii, 211 [Original: xxxvi, 212 ]
By: Polo de Ondegardo, d. 1575, Urteaga, Horacio H., b. 1877, Romero, Carlos Alberto, Hoyo, Juan Josef del., Brunel, Ariane, Murra, John V., Muirden, Sydney.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is concerned primarily with various forms of taxation and tribute in existence during pre-Spanish days in the Inka empire and the adaptation and reapplication of this basic system during the subsequent Soanish administration. The author, a member of the Spanish judicial administration, was requested by the king of Spain to undertake a study of the customs and traditions of the Inka people so as to form a basic matrix into which the new laws and regulations of the colonial government in addition to the religious doctrines of the Catholicism of the Spanish missionaries could be best fit with the least disruption to the existing religious, economic and political systems of the Inka empire. The results of his investigations appear as the content of this source, which in addition to the primary point of focus mentioned above also contains some limited information on precontact culture history and foreign relations of the Inka, religion and religious personnel, the calendar and associated ceremonials, sorcery, fortunetelling and soothsaying, and the special treatment afforded the dead Inka rulers. The political organization of the Inka empire, as presented in this work, is very difficult to understand, probably due in part to the stylistic difficulties in translating the rather archaic Spanish of the original book into modern English. The researcher is therefore referred to other sources in this file for a more concise picture of the political system. At the end of the source, pp. 196-211, there are two appendices (A and B) which are arranged to correspond to the chapters of the main body of the text. These chapters contain a wealth of information in the form of numbered notes amplifying various aspects of Inka ethnography mentioned in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Domesticated animals
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Real property
- Highways and bridges
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Taxation and public income
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- Ordering of time
- Ethnometeorology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inka
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Judicial Personnel
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1966
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1545
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1600
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Juan Polo de Ondegardo
- Translation of: [Informaciones accrea de la religión y gobierno de los Incas]
- Translated for the HRAF files by A. Brunel, John Murra, and Sidney Muirden
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 18009401
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Incas