Sabine Hyland is Co-director of a multidisciplinary project studying the Chanka people of Peru. She holds a doctoral degree in anthropology from Yale, and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at St. Norbert College.
". .. . Hyland provides insight into the life of the Jesuit
scholar, indigenous historian, teacher, and religious
comparativist. Part history, part detective novel, the book plunges
into various controversies: Christianity and indigenous Inca
religion; Jesuits and the Spanish Crown; Valera's own mixed
heritage; and even Valera and the Jesuits who imprisoned and then
exiled him, despite his loyalty to the order. . . . Valera takes
his place among ethnographers such as Acosta and Native rights
advocates such as Las Casas, and Hyland's book provides captivating
access to his unique contribution to history. Highly
Recommended."
--Choice
"[A] refreshingly lucid account of an important but poorly known
figure in colonial Latin American history."
-Richard L. Burger, Yale University
"This is a beautifully written, deeply informed and highly
informative work. . . . [Hyland] has cast a bright light into a
corner of early colonial Latin American scholarship that we had all
but abandoned hope of ever seeing into very clearly."
-Gary Urton, Harvard University
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