Religion, Collectivism, and Intrahistory

The Peruvian Ideal of Dependence

Bibliographic Data

ID3437037
AuthorsFredrick B Pike (corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume10
Issue2
Pages239-262
Publication date1978-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x00021246
OpenAlexW2098763267
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited47

The Inca ruling elites of ancient Peru based their right to leadership on a claim not only to aristocratic but also to divine blood. They were, they assured their subjects, descendants of Manco Capac, the son of the sun who according to official Inca history had founded the Empire of Tahuantinsuyo (the four corners). For the Incas, therefore, legitimacy rested on charisma, in the sense in which Max Weber used that word: 'It is the quality which attaches to men and things by virtue of their relations with the "supernatural," that is, with the nonempirical aspects of reality in so far as they lend theological meaning to men's acts and the events of the world

Ancient history · Charisma · Collectivism · Empire · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics) · Individualism · Legitimacy · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Theology · Virtue · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Religion and Society Interactions

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