Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)

Burger, Richard L.; Morris, Craig; Mendieta, Ramiro Matos

ISBN 10: 0884023516 / ISBN 13: 9780884023517

Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, 2008

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4to (26 cm), XIV, 449 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been traditionally viewed through the textual sources of early colonial histories, this volume draws on recent archaeological research to challenge theories on the chronology and development of the Inka Empire and how this culture spread across such a vast area. The volume demonstrates the great regional diversity of the Inka realm, with strategies of expansion that were shaped to meet a variety of local situations beyond the capital in Cusco. Using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history." (from the publisher's synopsis).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884023516
• ISBN 13: 9780884023517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archeology

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Synopsis

Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been traditionally viewed through the textual sources of early colonial histories, this volume draws on recent archaeological research to challenge theories on the chronology and development of the Inka Empire and how this culture spread across such a vast area. The volume demonstrates the great regional diversity of the Inka realm, with strategies of expansion that were shaped to meet a variety of local situations beyond the capital in Cusco. Using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, scholars from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities provide a new understanding of Inka culture and history.

About the Authors

Richard L. Burger is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator of South American Archaeology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Craig Morris was Curator of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History.

Ramiro Matos Mendieta is Curator at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.

Joanne Pillsbury is Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gary Urton is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.