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Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes (The William & Bettye Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) - Hardcover

 
9781477323854: Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes (The William & Bettye Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1477323856 ISBN 13: 9781477323854
Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2022

Synopsis

2023 Book Award, Society for American Archaeology

A dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu.

The Inka conquered an immense area extending across five modern nations, yet most English-language publications on the Inka focus on governance in the area of modern Peru. This volume expands the range of scholarship available in English by collecting new and notable research on Qullasuyu, the largest of the four quarters of the empire, which extended south from Cuzco into contemporary Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.

From the study of Qullasuyu arise fresh theoretical perspectives that both complement and challenge what we think we know about the Inka. While existing scholarship emphasizes the political and economic rationales underlying state action, Rethinking the Inka turns to the conquered themselves and reassesses imperial motivations. The book’s chapters, incorporating more than two hundred photographs, explore relations between powerful local lords and their Inka rulers; the roles of nonhumans in the social and political life of the empire; local landscapes remade under Inka rule; and the appropriation and reinterpretation by locals of Inka objects, infrastructure, practices, and symbols. Written by some of South America’s leading archaeologists, Rethinking the Inka is poised to be a landmark book in the field.

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About the Author

Frances M. Hayashida is a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and the director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute.

Andrés Troncoso is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chile.

Diego Salazar is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chile.

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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1477323856
ISBN 13 
9781477323854
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
328
Editor
Hayashida Frances M., Troncoso Andrés, Salazar Diego