Description
Book SynopsisLeading international scholars from many complementary disciplines present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inka Empire, the largest political system that ever developed in the ancient New World.
Trade Review"Shimada’s monumental volume makes clear that ‘Inka’ can be understood in multiple ways, whether as a claim to ethnic origin, an assertion of status, a mode of governance or as a standard of beauty...This volume will surely influence research on the Inkas for decades to come. Moreover, although the volume maintains a tight focus on its subject matter, it offers rich and varied insights into imperialism that will interest scholars of ancient empires more generally." * Antiquity *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction (Izumi Shimada)
Part I. Written Sources, Origins, and Formations
Chapter 2. Inkas through Texts: The Primary Sources (Frank Salomon)
Chapter 3. The Languages of the Inkas (Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino)
Chapter 4. Tracing the Origin of Inka People through Ancient DNA Analysis (Ken-ichi Shinoda)
Chapter 5. Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Inka Myths, Inka Legends, and the Archaeological Evidence for State Development (Brian S. Bauer and Douglas K. Smit)
Part II. Imperial Infrastructures and Administrative Strategies
Chapter 6. Inka Imperial Intentions and Archaeological Realities in the Peruvian Highlands (R. Alan Covey)
Chapter 7. Funding the Inka Empire (Terence N. D'Altroy)
Part III. Inka Culture at the Center
Chapter 8. Inka Cosmology in Moray: Astronomy, Agriculture, and Pilgrimage (John C. Earls and Gabriela Cervantes)
Chapter 9. The State of Strings: Khipu Administration in the Inka Empire (Gary Urton)
Chapter 10. Inka Art (Thomas B. F. Cummins)
Chapter 11. Inka Textile Traditions and Their Colonial Counterparts (Elena Phipps)
Chapter 12. The Inka Built Environment (Stella Nair and Jean-Pierre Protzen)
Chapter 13. Considering Inka Royal Estates: Architecture, Economy, History (Susan A. Niles)
Chapter 14. Inka Conceptions of Life, Death, and Ancestor Worship (Peter Kaulicke)
Part IV. Imperial Administration in the Provinces
Chapter 15. Collasuyu of the Inka State (Martti Pärssinen)
Chapter 16. Reading the Material Record of Inka Rule: Style, Polity, and Empire on the North Coast of Peru (Frances M. Hayashida and Natalia Guzmán)
Chapter 17. Over the Mountains, Down into the Ceja de Selva: Inka Strategies and Impacts in the Chachapoya Region (Inge Schjellerup)
Chapter 18. At the End of Empire: Imperial Advances on the Northern Frontier (Tamara L. Bray)
Part V. Impacts of the Spanish Conquest
Chapter 19. Three Faces of the Inka: Changing Conceptions and Representations of the Inka during the Colonial Period (Tetsuya Amino)
Authors' Biographies
Index
