Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction (Izumi Shimada)

Part I. Written Sources, Origins, and Formations

Chapter 2. Inkas through Texts: The Primary Sources (Frank Salomon)

Chapter 3. The Languages of the Inkas (Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino)

Chapter 4. Tracing the Origin of Inka People through Ancient DNA Analysis (Ken-ichi Shinoda)

Chapter 5. Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Inka Myths, Inka Legends, and the Archaeological Evidence for State Development (Brian S. Bauer and Douglas K. Smit)

Part II. Imperial Infrastructures and Administrative Strategies

Chapter 6. Inka Imperial Intentions and Archaeological Realities in the Peruvian Highlands (R. Alan Covey)

Chapter 7. Funding the Inka Empire (Terence N. D'Altroy)

Part III. Inka Culture at the Center

Chapter 8. Inka Cosmology in Moray: Astronomy, Agriculture, and Pilgrimage (John C. Earls and Gabriela Cervantes)

Chapter 9. The State of Strings: Khipu Administration in the Inka Empire (Gary Urton)

Chapter 10. Inka Art (Thomas B. F. Cummins)

Chapter 11. Inka Textile Traditions and Their Colonial Counterparts (Elena Phipps)

Chapter 12. The Inka Built Environment (Stella Nair and Jean-Pierre Protzen)

Chapter 13. Considering Inka Royal Estates: Architecture, Economy, History (Susan A. Niles)

Chapter 14. Inka Conceptions of Life, Death, and Ancestor Worship (Peter Kaulicke)

Part IV. Imperial Administration in the Provinces

Chapter 15. Collasuyu of the Inka State (Martti Pärssinen)

Chapter 16. Reading the Material Record of Inka Rule: Style, Polity, and Empire on the North Coast of Peru (Frances M. Hayashida and Natalia Guzmán)

Chapter 17. Over the Mountains, Down into the Ceja de Selva: Inka Strategies and Impacts in the Chachapoya Region (Inge Schjellerup)

Chapter 18. At the End of Empire: Imperial Advances on the Northern Frontier (Tamara L. Bray)

Part V. Impacts of the Spanish Conquest

Chapter 19. Three Faces of the Inka: Changing Conceptions and Representations of the Inka during the Colonial Period (Tetsuya Amino)

Authors' Biographies

Index

Promotional Information

"This book is of major importance. It will be a classic for the next twenty years, challenging assumptions and pointing out new directions for productive research in all the disciplines included. In addition, it will be a graduate student's guidebook, a refresher for specialists who may not have been keeping up with advances in other disciplines, and utterly fascinating for scholarly readers interested in prehistoric empires, American native cultures, or the benefits of well-integrated multidisciplinary research." -- Jeanette E. Sherbondy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Washington College, and author of Cuzco: Aguas y Poder "This edited volume not only provides a useful textbook for students but will act as an important benchmark and reference point for future research on the Inka Empire. It offers thoughtful summaries of the latest findings from archaeological, historical, anthropological, and linguistic approaches. It provides a broad overview of the Empire from its origins to the Colonial period, and from the heartland of Cuzco to the furtherest outreaches. Each chapter is written by recognized authorities who are well placed to summarize the work of others and who write insightfully about topics, regions, and time periods on which they have been conducting their own research." -- Bill Sillar, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University College London, author of Shaping Culture: Making Pots and Constructing Households, and coeditor of Conservation, Identity and Ownership in Indigenous Archaeology

About the Author

Izumi Shimada is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He has authored or edited over 200 publications, including Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture and Craft Production in Complex Societies, and has received awards and honors from the governments of, and other institutions in, both Japan and Peru.

Reviews

"Shimada’s monumental volume makes clear that ‘Inka’ can be understood in multiple ways, whether as a claim to ethnic origin, an assertion of status, a mode of governance or as a standard of beauty...This volume will surely influence research on the Inkas for decades to come. Moreover, although the volume maintains a tight focus on its subject matter, it offers rich and varied insights into imperialism that will interest scholars of ancient empires more generally."
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