Event Details
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013
In the Service of the Sun: The Acllas of Pachacamac, Peru
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: TEACHING AUDITORIUM (HCL 8), NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA, Sarasota
Description: The Chosen Women of the Inka, also called the acllas or mamakonas, formed an institution without parallel in the Western Hemisphere. They were an elite class of highly specialized artisans and religious officials who were drawn from subject populations and installed at Inka administrative centers throughout the empire. Within the enclosed walls of the acllahuasi, the acllas brewed beer, wove exquisite textiles, and trained the next generation of chosen women. When the Spanish encountered the acllas, they saw them as native counterparts to medieval Catholic nuns. Their early writings provide the majority of our information on this institution.
This talk will discuss the (sometimes contradictory) descriptions of the acllas in the chronicles, and use the Pachacamac artifacts to suggest a reinterpretation of our current understanding of the institution.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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