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This article studies the role of women chosen for the cult of the Sun and textile work during the Inca Empire as described by the Ince Garcilaso, who highlights the distinctive role that these tasks fulfilled in the social order. The weaving of the elite clothes and the moral condition of the "virgins of the Sun" were marks of cultural identity that remained iii the memory during the colonial era, so weaving became a potentially subversive practice in the face of the Spanish dominance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the history of the discovery of America and its impact to the native inhabitants. Testimonies made by natives; Records and documentations.