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Silverblatt on Andean and Inca gender roles due Mon. 3/27

Please read Irene Silverblatt, Moon, Sun and Witches Ch.1, pp. 3-19. You can access an electronic copy through the CSUN library homepage. On the library webpage go to the library catalog and do a title search of Moon, Sun and Witches. Click on the one followed by the term "electronic resource." Click on the red lettering that says "Connect to ACLS Humanites E-Book." You will be asked for you ID info. You will see each chapter listed, click on Chapter 1. The questions are due via Moodle anytime before our class meets. Please bring in a copy of your answers so you can refer to them. 

1.) What´s your gut reaction?

2.)Explain the ayllu. Explain gender parallelism and how this influenced how Andean women gained resources in the ayllu.

3.) How did Andean societies view relationships between men and women, especially as reflected in the ritual of marriage?

 4.) What work in the Andean community did women primarily contribute to? What were the duties that defined maleness?

5.) What is Silverblatt´s argument about how gender differences became gender hierarchies in Andean communities conquered by the Incas?

6.)Give at least two examples of women who wielded power in pre and post Inca society in the Andes.

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1.) What´s your gut reaction?

Reading this piece I could not believe that this society practiced gender equality of the incredible level. I am surprised that women were allowed to own land and property during this ancient time. Also what caught my attention of the division of labor, men and women had their roles well defined. This shows that this society was well organized socially and politically.

2.)Explain the ayllu. Explain gender parallelism and how this influenced how Andean women gained resources in the ayllu.

Ayllu is a member of Quachua community. As ayllu member, one was born with rights and obligations that could be expected of and were owed tom those whom the Andean world defined as obligable relatives. Women conceived themselves as the descendants, through their mothers, of a line of women; men in parallel fashion saw themselves as descending from their fathers in a line of men.  The values and tone of gender parallelism were continuously reinforced in the practical activities through which they constructed and experienced their lives. Men and women could base their claim to ayllu resources on several sets of system governing access to community wealth. Women through their mothers enjoyed access to community land, water, herds and other necessities of life.

3.) How did Andean societies view relationships between men and women, especially as reflected in the ritual of marriage?

Marriage rites, whether binding together peasants or the Inca elite, celebrated the formation of a new unity made up of equals. Accordingly wives and husbands saw themselves as contributing in complementary but commensurate ways to the formation of the household.

 4.) What work in the Andean community did women primarily contribute to? What were the duties that defined maleness?

Women were the weavers of Andean society. They were always spinning on walks, during conversations with family or while watching over children. Women made sure that their family was clothed. Plowing and combat were the tasks that represented Andean male hood. But they did much more than that; they weeded, help in the harvest, carried firewood, built houses, herded Ilamas and alpcas.

5.) What is Silverblatt´s argument about how gender differences became gender hierarchies in Andean communities conquered by the Incas?

Pre-Inca communities had demonstrated considerable diversity in their sociopolitical organization, and within some ayllus a higher-ranked group know as curacas enjoyed certain privileges in relation to their follow ayllu members. The principle advantage is that curacs enjoyed lay in their ability to make greater claim on the ayllu’s wealth and labor.  In keeping with royal gender norms, the Incas, who governed through a system of indirect rule, tended to confirm headmen as links between ayllus and the Cuzco bureaucracy. The power brokers of the empire were male.

6.)Give at least two examples of women who wielded power in pre and post Inca society in the Andes.

Chanan Curycoca, head of the aylu Chocosochona and Hatun Jauja of Contarguacho.