The Incas

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: D'Altroy, Terence N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Investigating Empires
  • Studying the Incas
  • The Written Sources
  • Eyewitnesses to the Spanish Invasion
  • The Major Sixteenth-Century Spanish Authors
  • Authors with Andean Ancestry
  • The Later Spanish Chroniclers
  • Spanish Inspections, Church Documents, and Court Records
  • Inca Archaeology
  • 1860-1960
  • 1960-2010
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 The Land and Its People
  • The Natural Setting
  • The Andes
  • Climate
  • Environmental Zones
  • Traditional Land Use Today
  • Farming
  • Herding
  • Human Physiology in the Andean Environment
  • Predecessors
  • Languages
  • Time Frames
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3 The Incas before the Empire
  • Setting the Stage
  • Narrative Origins
  • The Early Reigns
  • The Origins of "Cuzco"
  • The Archaeological Picture
  • A Sketch of Pre-Imperial Inca Society
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions
  • Expansionist Designs and the Crisis in Cuzco
  • The Chanka Wars
  • The Major Expansions: Pachakuti and Thupa Inka Yupanki
  • Expeditions Southward
  • The Peruvian Sierra and Coast
  • Advances into Ecuador
  • More Ventures onto the Peruvian Coast
  • Further Ventures into the Eastern Lowlands
  • Rebellion in the Altiplano
  • Advances into Argentina and Chile
  • Consolidation of the Empire: Wayna Qhapaq
  • Dynastic War: Waskhar and Atawallpa
  • Explaining the Inca Expansion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5 Thinking Inca
  • Part I: Framing the Questions
  • What Was the Inca Canon?
  • The Nature and Basis of Knowledge
  • Some Fundamentals
  • Vitality
  • Kinship and Sexuality
  • Motion
  • Space-Time
  • Language and Knowledge
  • Part II: Existence
  • Vitality
  • (Space-)Time
  • Objects, Things, and Stuff
  • Part III: Numerical Thinking (Not Just Accounting or Arithmetic)
  • Information Recording and Communication: A Problem and Its Knotty Solution
  • How Did the Khipu Work? Figuring It Out
  • Information Recorded on the Khipu
  • Was the Khipu an Instrument of Writing?
  • How Did the Khipu Work? Today's Theories
  • Making Calculations
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco
  • Tawantinsuyu: The Four Parts Together
  • Cuzco's Political Organization
  • The Ruler: Sapa Inca ("Unique Inca")
  • The High Priest (Willaq Umu)
  • The Royal and Aristocratic Kindred
  • Royal Alliances: Political Marriages and the Power of the Queen
  • Succession Crises and the Shaping of Political History
  • Note
  • Chapter 7 The Heartland of the Empire
  • The Setting and Urban Plan
  • The Central Plazas
  • The Major Architecture
  • Temples
  • Saqsawaman
  • Other Features
  • Greater Cuzco
  • Royal and Aristocratic Estates
  • Royal Coca Estates
  • Summary
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present
  • Origins of the Cosmos and Humanity
  • The Inca Pantheon
  • Wiraqocha, the Creator
  • Inti, the Sun

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