communication with the dead, the ayllu constituted itself as a moral and political
entity at every level—from small rural settlements to the royal lineages of
Cuzco.
Further Reading
Cobo, Bernabé. Inca Religion and Customs. Translated and edited by Roland Hamilton. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1990.
Dillehay, Tom D., ed. Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices. Washington, DC: Dumbarton
Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995.
Gose, Peter. Invaders as Ancestors: On the Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
MacCormick, Sabine. Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1991.
Ramírez, Susan Elizabeth. To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Basis of Authority and Identity in the
Andes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.
Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, María. History of the Inca Realm. Translated by Harry B. Iceland.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Salomon, Frank, and George L. Urioste, trans. and eds. The Huarochirí Manuscript: A Testament of Ancient
and Colonial Andean Religion. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
■CATHERINE J. ALLEN