Susan Elizabeth Ramírez | Inca History sku-3914881

In To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in the Andes, Susan Elizabeth Ramírez reexamines Inca society before the Spanish conquest. She argues that Andean cosmology and divine rulership shaped the political economy, spatial organization and social kinship.

Ramírez explains that "el Cuzco" referred to both a place and the Inca leader, whom she describes as connecting people to ancestors, nature and one another. The book examines how rulers and other authorities linked people to the gods, how rituals connected them to past generations, and how beliefs about the ruler shaped Andean community and identity.

This hardcover is listed under Native American History Books as sku-3914881.