The Chankas and the Priest
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The Chankas and the Priest

A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru

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The Chankas and the Priest

A Tale of Murder and Exile in Highland Peru

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How does society deal with a serial killer in its midst? What if the murderer is a Catholic priest living among native villagers in colonial Peru?

In The Chankas and the Priest, Sabine Hyland chronicles the horrifying story of Father Juan Bautista de AlbadĂĄn, a Spanish priest to the Chanka people of Pampachiri in Peru from 1601 to 1611. During his reign of terror over his Andean parish, AlbadĂĄn was guilty of murder, sexual abuse, sadistic torture, and theft from his parishioners, amassing a personal fortune at their expense. For ten years, he escaped punishment for these crimes by deceiving and outwitting his superiors in the colonial government and church administration.

Drawing on a remarkable collection of documents found in archives in the Americas and Europe, including a rare cache of AlbadĂĄn's candid family letters, Hyland reveals what life was like for the Chankas under this corrupt and brutal priest, and how his actions sparked the instability that would characterize Chanka political and social history for the next 123 years. Through this tale, she vividly portrays the colonial church and state of Peru as well as the history of Chanka ethnicity, the nature of Spanish colonialism, and the changing nature of Chanka politics and kinship from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780271077635
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1: Setting Out
  7. Notes for Chapter 1
  8. PART I
  9. Chapter 2: The Crimes
  10. Notes to Chapter 2
  11. Chapter 3: The Priest
  12. Notes to Chapter 3
  13. Chapter 4: The Library
  14. Notes to Chapter 4
  15. Chapter 5: The Dinner Party
  16. Notes to Chapter 5
  17. Chapter 6: The Funeral
  18. Notes to Chapter 6
  19. PART II
  20. Chapter 7: The Kuraka
  21. Notes to Chapter 7
  22. Chapter 8: The Rivalry
  23. Notes to Chapter 8
  24. Conclusion: The Aftermath
  25. Notes to Conclusion
  26. Appendix: The Chankas Prior to the Spanish Invasion
  27. Notes to Appendix
  28. Notes
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index
  31. COVER Back