latin american studies New Titles and Selected Backlist penn state university press New Contents ORDER INFORMATION Gods of the Andes Of Cannibals and Kings New Titles . .1–25 Individuals: An Early Jesuit Account of Inca Religion and Primal Anthropology in the Americas Latin American Originals Series . 1–3 We encourage ordering through your Andean Christianity Neil L. Whitehead local bookstore. Payment must ac- Sabine Hyland Selected Backlist. .26–27 “As the primal text of Europe’s en- company orders to Penn State Press. “This work is an exciting addition to the counter with America, Ramón Pané’s Index . 28 Use the order form at the back of this field. It presents a source hitherto unavail- Antiquities of the Indies is of unparal- Order Form. .29 catalogue or order online using your able in English; it illustrates aspects of leled importance for understand- credit card at www.psupress.org. 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Coe, Yale University Of Cannibals and Kings collects the Books listed as hardcover-only may very earliest accounts of the native “Sabine Hyland’s book revives a defiant voice from the Americas’ past. By 1594 be available as lower priced paper- peoples of the Americas, including the last generation born under Inca rule was dying off. A burgeoning colonial backs for course use. For details visit selections from the descriptions of clergy was teaching that the ‘Indian’s’ sacred tradition had been nothing but a www.psupress.org/books/text.html. Columbus’s first two voyages; docu- diabolical fraud. But even as the clergy geared up for ‘extirpation,’ some dissent- ments reflecting the initial colonial Titles, publication dates, and prices ers boldly claimed that Inca religion included insights into true divinity. One of occupation in Haiti, Venezuela, and announced in this catalogue are sub- these dissenters—the anonymous Jesuit whom Hyland identifies as the half- Guyana; and the first ethnographic ject to change without notice. Inca Blas Valera—in 1594 took his stand by combining memories of his mother’s account of the Taínos by the mission- Inca culture with a challenge to colonial power. Hyland’s translation brings to Abbreviations ary Ramón Pané. This primal anthro- life one vital indigenous source of the New World’s human-rights tradition.” tr: trade discount; sh: short discount pology directly guided a rapacious —Frank Salomon, University of Wisconsin–Madison Penn State is an affirmative action, discovery of the lands of both wild equal opportunity University. Gods of the Andes provides the first English translation of the earliest lengthy cannibals and golden kings. U. Ed. LIB 12-508. description of Inca religion, An Account of the Ancient Customs of the Natives of 152 pages | 6 illus./2 maps | 5.5 x 8.5 | 2011 Peru (1594). The Account is part of a Jesuit tradition of ecumenical works on re- isbn 978-0-271-03799-8 | paper: $25.95 sh Cover illustration by Henry C. Pitz. ligion that encompasses the more famous writings of Matteo Ricci in China and Roberto de Nobili in India. It includes original descriptions of many different as- pects of Inca religion, including human sacrifice, the use of hallucinogens, mum- mification rituals, the existence of transgendered priests in the ancient Andes, divination rituals based on animal entrails, oracles, burials, and confession. In her introductory chapters, Sabine Hyland presents the controversial life of the ascribed author, Blas Valera, a Jesuit who was ultimately imprisoned and exiled by the Jesuits for his “heretical” belief that the Incas worshipped the same creator god the Christians did; examines the Account in the light of other colonial writings about the Incas; and outlines what we know about Inca reli- gion through other sources, comparing Valera’s version to those of other writers. 144 pages | 2 illustrations/1 map | 5.5 x 8.5 | 2011 isbn 978-0-271-04880-2 | paper: $24.95 sh latin american originals www.psupress.org | 1 Invading Colombia Invading Guatemala The Conquest on Trial Forgotten Franciscans Defending the Conquest Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Spanish, Nahua, and Maya Accounts of Carvajal’s Complaint of the Indians in Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of the Conquest Wars the Court of Death Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquest Matthew Restall and Florine Asselbergs Carlos A. Jáuregui Martin Austin Nesvig Conquests J. Michael Francis “The second volume in the Latin Edited by Kris Lane Michael de Carvajal’s fascinating and “Martin Nesvig recovers the words and Translated by Timothy F. Johnson “To add to the tragic brutalities of American Originals series from unusual play—published by Luis deeds of three long-forgotten Franciscans Cortés’s conquest of Mexico and Pennsylvania State University Press, Hurtado de Toledo in 1557—is a rare who were far removed from the arche- “While all the world has heard of Pizarro’s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Invading Guatemala: Spanish, Nahua sixteenth-century theatrical piece typal sixteenth-century missionary role, Bartolomé de las Casas, the ‘Apostle Francis now offers us an admirable and Maya Accounts of the Conquest about the conquest of the New World. yet were part of the struggle to preserve of the Indians,’ few have heard of the reconstruction of the hitherto unex- Wars, in which Matthew Restall, It is a long-ignored but fundamental the Christian religion and transfer it to a crusty and garrulous Spanish captain plored events that took place to the well known for having laid to rest a source for the study of Latin Ameri- new world. This work helps us understand Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, who, in east of Peru. His Invading Colombia . number of misconceptions about the can cultural history. A theatrical ver- sixteenth-century Franciscans’ complex a state of high indignation, set out to is the result of an exhaustive explora- wars of conquest in his book Seven sion of the Spanish Conquest clearly theological standing, which could swing refute the Dominican’s depiction of tion of Sevillian archives. Accompa- Myths of the Spanish Conquest, joins influenced by Bartolomé de Las between orthodoxy and challenges to the Spanish conquest of America as nied by a lively introduction, and by forces with Florine Asselbergs to de- Casas, the play centers on a group of the established canons of the faith. The an unremitting chronicle of atrocities. commentaries and annotations that molish the generally accepted vision American natives filing a complaint Franciscan order harbored brilliant But if we are to get a fair picture of are as reliable as they are readable, of the conquest of Guatemala. The against the Spanish conquistadors— theoreticians, spiritual dissenters, and the extraordinary events surrounding the book poses the intriguing ques- vivid picture that emerges is a much before a tribunal presided over by near hermits driven to serve as censors the conquest, it is important that the tion of why an exploration that led more complex, prolonged and tragic Death. They denounce the horrors of the faith. Nesvig enriches our vision of this religious order and indicates new voices of those who took issue with more Spaniards into Colombia than affair than traditional historiography and crimes committed against them ways for renovating the study of their role in Mexico in the early modern period. Las Casas be heard. The editor and Cortés led into Mexico, or Pizarro would have us believe.” by the conquistadors and colonizers There are still some gems to be discovered in the rich archival records of the translator of Defending the Conquest into Peru, should have remained —Fernando Cervantes, in their idolatrous greed for gold. The Inquisition and the Franciscan order, and this work proves it.” have therefore performed a great ser- almost completely unknown.” Times Literary Supplement play constitutes an allegorical sum- —Asunción Lavrin, Arizona State University vice in making available to a modern readership this most politically incor- —Fernando Cervantes, “Restall and Asselbergs have done mary of the debates of the day about “A fascinating collection of writings by early colonial Franciscans.