The Inka empire : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Izumi Shimada.


Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
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Part of the series The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere;William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • 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.

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