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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
From the journal Archiv für Religionsgeschichte Volume 2 Issue 1

Processions for the Inca:Aiidean and Christian ideas of human sacrifice,coinmunion and embodiment in early colonial Peru.Sabine MacCormack/Ann Arbor*Isfa testimonia nos compcllnnt quaerere potius curfactumsit, quam fädle improbare quodfactum es t.These festimonies compel us to ask why things were done,rather than readüy findingfault with what was done.'I. Processions for the IncaIn 1558, the Audiencia of Lima, äs the highest juridical authority in the SpanishViceroyalty of Peru, heard evidence regarding a land dispute between the commu-nities of Canta and Chacalla in the Chillon valley, some fifty kilometres North-Eastof Lima. Both cominunities claimed äs their own a nearby coca field that was lo-cated in the temtory of the small village of Quibi.2 Witnesses, however, wereagreed that the field belonged to the people of Canta and informed the court howCanta had acquired it. Before the Incas came to the valley, tliey said, the lord ofQuibi had been subject to another lord, Collicapa, who rided over a place calledCollique. At some point, the lord of Canta invaded the land of Collicapa and forcedhim to place a boundary marker that designated the coca field of Quibi äs pertain-ing to Canta. Within the terms of the agreement, men of Canta cultivated and har-vested the coca field side by side with men of Collique, and the two polities wereable to live in peace and friendship with each other.3 But when the Inca Tupa Yu-panqui gained control of the valley in the later fifteenth Century, he, like bis suc-cessors Guayna Capac and Guascar, favoured Chacalla, which was why Chacalla* I would like to thank Clifford Ando and David Nirenberg for their comments on an earlier ver-sion of this paper and only wish that I could do everythirig that thcy suggest!1 Augustine, Quaestionum in Heptatateuchum libri (ed. I. Fraipont Corpus ChristianorumSeries Latina XXXIH, Turnholt 1968), VII, 49, 8.2 Much of the transcript of this case survives in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville. Thedocuinent, known äs Justicia 413, has been published, with an introductory study, by Maria Rost-worowski de Diez Canseco, Conflicts Over Coca. Fields in XVI-Centuty Peru (Memoirs of the Mu-seum of Antiiropology, University of Michigan, Nuniber 21, Ann Arbor MI 1988); another intro-ductory study, by Joyce Marcus and Jörge E. Silva, discusses the archaeology of die region. Here-after, I cite this work äs Coca Fields. See also, Tom D. Dillehay, Tawantinsuyu. Integration of theChillon Valley, Peru: A Case of Inca Geo-Political Mastery. Journal of 'Field Archaeology· 4 (1977),pp. 397-405; Maria Rostworowski, Senonos indigenas de Limay Canta (Lima 1978).3 Coca Fields fol. 247v-248r.ARG 2. Band, Heft l, 2000,110-140
Published Online: 2010-5-17
Published in Print: 2000-12-31

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