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The Inka empire : a multidisciplinary approach /

"The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shimada, Izumi (Editor )
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Izumi Shimada
  • Inkas through texts : the primary sources / Frank Salomon
  • The languages of the Inkas / Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino
  • Tracing the origin of Inka people through ancient DNA analysis / Ken-ichi Shinoda
  • Separating the wheat from the chaff : Inka myths, Inka legends and the archaeological evidence for state development / Brian S. Bauer and Douglas K. Smit
  • Inka imperial intentions and archaeological realities in the Peruvian highlands / R. Alan Covey
  • Funding the Inka empire / Terence N. D'Altroy
  • Inka cosmology in Moray : astronomy; agriculture, and pilgrimage / John C. Earls and Gabriela Cervantes
  • The state of strings : khipu administration in the Inka empire / Gary Urton
  • Inka art / Thomas B.F. Cummins
  • Inka textile traditions and their colonial counterparts / Elena Phipps
  • The Inka built environment / Stella Nair and Jean-Pierre Protzen
  • Considering Inka royal estates : architecture, economy, history / Susan A. Niles
  • Inka conceptions of life, death, and ancestor worship / Peter Kaulicke
  • Collasuyu of the Inka state / Martti Pärssinen
  • Reading the material record of Inka rule : style, polity, and empire on the north coast of Peru / Frances M. Hayashida and Natalia Guzmán
  • Over the mountains, down into the Ceja de Selva : Inka strategies and impacts in the Chachapoyas region / Inge Schjellerup
  • At the end of empire : imperial advances on the northern frontier / Tamara L. Bray
  • Three faces of the Inka : changing conceptions and representations of the Inka during the colonial period / Tetsuya Amino.