D'Altroy The Incas

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-61060-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Peoples of America

The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of thegreatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing onhistory, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated newedition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studiesconducted over the last decade.
* Written by one of the world's leading expertson Inca civilization
* Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology,society, and military organization
* Explores advances in research that includepre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacredlandscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations;the khipu information-recording technology; languages, timeframes, gender relations, effects on human biology, and dailylife
* Explicitly examines how the Inca world view andphilosophy affected the character of the empire
* Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, andphotographs

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Altroy, Terence N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xv
1 Introduction 1
2 The Land and Its People 33
3 The Incas before the Empire 68
4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions 91
5 Thinking Inca 119
6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco 174
7 The Heartland of the Empire 198
8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present 247
9 Family, Community, and Class 290
10 Militarism 321
11 Provincial Rule 351
12 Farmers, Herders, and Storehouses 392
13 Things and Their Masters 418
14 Invasion and Aftermath 449
References 476
Glossary of Foreign Terms 520
Index 527

Über Autor(innen)

Terence N. D'Altroy is Loubat Professor of AmericanArchaeology in the Department of Anthropology and founding Directorof the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University in the City ofNew York. During more than 40 years of archaeological research, hehas worked in the central highlands, Cuzco region and coast ofPeru, in Argentina, the United States, and Mexico. His publicationsinclude Provincial Power in the Inka Empire (1992),Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History(co-editor, 2001), and The Incas: Inside an American Empire(2004).