A pesar de su importancia, pocas veces se ha intentado comparar las dos grandes civilizaciones de America Precolombina: Aztecas e Incas. En esta labor han trabajado los investigadores Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Director Fundador del Templo Mayor de Mexico y Luis Millones, Profesor Emerito de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima, Peru. La idea que desarrollaron fue la de presentar una sintesis, manejando los temas mas importantes desde una misma perspectiva, que englobase disciplinas de las ciencias antropologicas, historicas y arqueologicas. El resultado es un libro minucioso,...

This book studies the elusive role of women in Andean society focusing on the Mochica Culture as well as the imperial Inca elite. Given the concentration of power in the Inca culture bestowed upon the Sun and the Inca, the female figure, as the available records demonstrate, does not cross the status barrier and remains placed in secondary roles. In studying the XVI century texts and through a careful selection of historical sources a fresh look has shed light on new interpretations supported by psychoanalytical reflection. This study picks up on the investigation started in 1987 by Maria...

The perception of the city of Lima as a center of celebrations is due especially to the prestige it enjoyed during the colonial period, which stemmed from its status as the seat of government of the Viceroyalty. But this is a superficial glance if we think of the long history of the place now occupied by the disorganized, crowded and chaotic capital of the Republic of Peru. In fact the place between the Chillon, Rimac and Lurin river valleys that are the area of expansion of the primitive city founded by Pizarro had a festive pre-Columbian life, centered around the great sanctuary of...