The Oxford Handbook of the Incas
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 May 2018
- ISBN 9780190219352
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages880 pages
- Size 249x175x38 mm
- Weight 1315 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Over 200 pieces of line art and halftones 0
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of the Incas aims to be the first comprehensive book on the Inca, the largest empire in the pre-Columbian world. Using archaeology, ethnohistory and art history, the central goal of this handbook is to bring together recent research conducted by experts from different fields that study the Inca empire, from its origins and expansion to its demise and continuing influence in contemporary times.
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When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas. Just over a century earlier, military campaigns began to extend power across a broad swath of the Andean region, bringing local societies into new relationships with colonists and officials who represented the Inca state. With Cuzco as its capital, the Inca empire encompassed a multitude of peoples of diverse geographic origins and cultural traditions dwelling in the outlying provinces and frontier regions. Bringing together an international group of well-established scholars and emerging researchers, this handbook is dedicated to revealing the origins of this empire, as well as its evolution and aftermath. Chapters break new ground using innovative multidisciplinary research from the areas of archaeology, ethnohistory and art history.
The scope of this handbook is comprehensive. It places the century of Inca imperial expansion within a broader historical and archaeological context, and then turns from Inca origins to the imperial political economy and institutions that facilitated expansion. Provincial and frontier case studies explore the negotiation and implementation of state policies and institutions, and their effects on the communities and individuals that made up the bulk of the population. Several chapters describe religious power in the Andes, as well as the special statuses that staffed the state religion, maintained records, served royal households, and produced fine craft goods to support state activities.
The Incas did not disappear in 1532, and the volume continues into the Colonial and later periods, exploring not only the effects of the Spanish conquest on the lives of the indigenous populations, but also the cultural continuities and discontinuities. Moving into the present, the volume ends will an overview of the ways in which the image of the Inca and the pre-Columbian past is memorialized and reinterpreted by contemporary Andeans.
The book includes input from many of the leading researchers in the field of Andean studies, a multidisciplinary group including archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, architects and biochemists, among others. They provide the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the Inca polity, its empire, administration and management of the many ethnic groups under its control, from Argentina, Bolivia and Chile in the south across Peru, to Ecuador in the north.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART 1. THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INCA EMPIRE
Writing Inca History: The Colonial Era
Andean Statecraft before the Incas
The Spread of Inca Power in the Cuzco Region
Cuzco: Development of the Imperial Capital
Conclusions: Retracing the Intellectual Journey of Inca Origins
PART 2. ROYAL ESTATES AND INCA IMPERIAL CENTERS
Royal Estates and Imperial Centers in the Cuzco Region
Inca Imperial Strategies and Installations in Central Bolivia
The Inca Center of Incallacta in the Southeastern Andes
The Inca Centers of Tomebamba and Caranqui in Northern Chinchaysuyu
Pachacamac and the Incas on the Coast of Peru
Conclusions: The Political Economy of Royal Estates and Imperial Centers in the Heartland and More Distant Provinces
PART 3. INCA HARD POWER: MILITARISM, ECONOMY, AND POLITICAL HIERARCHIES
Inca Political Organization, Economic Institutions, and Infrastructure
Cultivating Empire: Inca Intensive Agricultural Strategies
Fishing Economies and Ethnic Specialization under Inca Rule
The Acllacona and Mitmacona: Diet, Ethnicity, and Status
Gender and Status in Inca Textile and Ceramic Craft Production
Making the Typical Exceptional: The Elevation of Inca Cuisine
Conclusions: Reassessing Inca Hard Power
PART 4. INCA IMPERIAL IDENTITIES: COLONIZATION, RESISTANCE, AND HYBRIDITY
Inca Colonial Encounters and Incorporation in Northern Argentina
Inca Imperial Colonization in Northern Chile
Inca Mining and Metal Production
Chinchaysuyu and the Northern Inca Territory
Inca Advances into the Southeastern Tropics: The Inca Frontier in Perspective
Inca Transformations of the Chachapoya Region
Inca Landscapes of Domination: Rock Art and Community in North-Central Chile
Conclusions: Inca Imperial Identities -- Colonization, Resistance, and Hybridity
PART 5. SACRED LANDSCAPES
The Ritual Landscape of the Inca: The Huacas and Ceques of Cuzco
Rock Shrines, Ceque Lines, and Pilgrimage in the Inca Provinces
The Inca State and Local Ritual Landscapes
Inca Sacred Landscapes in the Titicaca Basin
Peregrination and Rituality in the Southern Provinces
Conclusions: Sacred Geographies and Imperial Expansion
PART 6. ART, ICONOGRAPHY, AND RECORD-KEEPING
Inca Aesthetics and Scholarly Inquiry
Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers: Reckoning and Recording in Tahuantinsuyu
The Development and Variation of Inca Architecture
Garments, Tocapu, Status, and Identity: Inca and Colonial Perspectives
The Iconography and Use of Inca and Colonial Drinking Vessels
Conclusions: Civilizing the Incas
PART 7. THE COLONIAL ERA: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND ADAPTATION
Transformations: Evangelization, Resettlement, and Community Organization in the Early Viceroyalty of Peru
Colonial Demography and Bioarchaeology
Vilcabamba: Last Stronghold of the Inca
Inca Ancestry and Colonial Privilege
Conclusions: Colonial Incas and the Myths of Conquest
PART 8. THE MANY USES OF THE INCA PAST IN THE PRESENT
Inca "Antiquities" in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Reinventing the Incas in Contemporary Cuzco: The Cases of Inti Raymi and Machu Picchu
Performances of "Pasts": Spaces of Indigeneity and Heritage Tourism in Cuzco
Conclusions: Appropriating the Inca -- The Complexities of Social Memory
Index
