Native Lords of Quito, Age of Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms: 59 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 59) - Softcover

Salomon, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521040493 ISBN 13: 9780521040495

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies. Their structure before and during the Inca interlude reveals diversity in the Andean world. Salomon provides remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies. He also contributes to our understanding of expansion, colonization, and the adaptive relationships between indigenous and imposed regimes in a context of precapitalist statecraft.

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Paperback. Pub Date: October 2007 Pages: 284 Publisher: Camidge. University Press By the TIME of Columbus. THE PEOPLE of Ecuador's Tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many YEARS proved Able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who. in turn. soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies . Their structure before and during the Inca interlude reveals diversity in the Andean world. Salomon provides remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms'. emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank. inequality. privilege and central power in stateless societies. He also contributes to our unde...

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Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies, providing remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', and emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521040493
• ISBN 13: 9780521040495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300