l not have their expectations fulfilled. However, the book is moving and successful precisely because the author accepts, honors and works diligently with the confusions, contradictions and uncertainties of the material at hand.
After an analysis of the fundamental "conceptual framework" of the religion and politics which composed the Spanish-Andean relationship, the author writes
Yet if this had been all, the story of Spanish perceptions of Inca and Andean religion, and the concurrent story of the evolution of Andean religion in colonial times, would be a simple one. There is, however, no sense in which this story is siple. For the criteria that had been evolved in Christian Spain to evaluate and judge religious truth and religious error were ambiguous, seeing that no set of absolute and unshakable distinctions could be drawn between the one and the other (49).
Many fascinating discoveries mark this book for the reader. For example, it might be perceived, from the bulk of European-oriented histories of the period, that the Andeans accepted the claims of th
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