Includes bibliographical references and index. New Book -- December -- 2015
Contents:
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.
Series:
The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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