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Anthropological History of Andean Polities
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Introduction John V. Murra and Nathan Wachtel; Part I. Ecology and Society: 1. The tropical Andes: a changing mosaic Oliver Dollfus; 2. The evolution of a valley: population and resources of Tarapaca over a millenium Lautaro Nunez; 3. 'Horizons' in Andean archaeology Ana Maria Lorandi; Part II. The Ethnic Group and the State: 4. The expansion of the Inka state: armies, war and rebellions John V. Murra; 5. Storage, supply and redistribution in the economy of the Inka state Craig Morris; 6. The extraction of precious metals at the time of the Inka Jean Berthelot; 7. Vertical politics on the Inka frontier Frank Salomon; Part III. Systems of Classification: 8. Some aspects of the Inka kinship system Floyd G. Lounsbury; 9. The classification and naming of South American camelids Jorge A. Flores Ochoa; 10. The semiology of Andean textiles: the talegas of Isluga Veronica Cereceda; Part IV. Symbolic Representations and Practices: 11. Inka dynasty and irrigation: another look at Andean concepts of history R. T. Zuidema; 12. Urco and uma: Aymara concepts of space Therese Bouysse-Cassagne; 13. Mirrors and maize: the concept of yanantin among the Macha of Bolivia Tristan Platt; 14. From asymmetry to triangle: symbolic transformations in northern Potosi Olivia Harris; Part V. From Ethnic Polities to Communities: 15. Men of the water: the Uru problem (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) Nathan Wachtel; 16. The ethnic groups in the valleys of Larecaja: from descent to residence Thierry Saignes; 17. The Andean community today Antoinette Molinie-Fioravanti; Bibliography; Index.

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It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to present a complex view of Andean societies over various millenia.

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