Language: English
Published by University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, 1993
ISBN 10: 0877454264 ISBN 13: 9780877454267
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xi, 272 pages, 4 pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dogeared a couple of times. *** "The Inca empire of Tawantinsuyu spanned almost 2,000 miles of enormous environmental variety, from coastal deserts to high-altitude grasslands. In less than a century, without wheeled vehicles or animals that could be ridden, the Incas conquered cultures that differed as tremendously as their environments. From agriculture-based polities with an elaborate material foundation like the Chimu of the north coast of Peru to marginal communities of fisherfolk like the Uru of the Lake Titicaca region, all were incorporated into a strongly hierarchical sociopolitical system as the empire spread during the Late Horizon, from A.D. 1438 to 1532. The essays in this distinctive, multifaceted volume combine the two principal sources of information on the Incas and the peoples they conquered - ethnohistorical accounts and archaeological research - to produce a single vision of a flexible, heterogeneous empire. The essayists' analytical focus evaluates the means by which we understand the Inca empire and its relationships with its conquered peoples; their empirical focus provides specific archaeological ways of identifying the Inca presence in provincial areas. Important contributions include the presentation of new data on Inca administrative policies and the merging of ethnic groups into the empire and the documentation of the many ways used to differentiate Inca from non-Inca material remains. Encompassing a wide range of environmental conditions and many kinds of provinces, Provincial Inca tests archaeological data against ethnohistorical descriptions to illuminate the variability in Inca state policies with regard to the incorporation of different provinces. It should be read by anyone interested in Andean archaeology, ethnohistory, culture, ethnicity, and the formation of the state." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008
ISBN 10: 0872209326 ISBN 13: 9780872209329
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Condition: New. pp. xxix + 164 Illus.
Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008
ISBN 10: 0872209326 ISBN 13: 9780872209329
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. pp. xxix + 164.
Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008
ISBN 10: 0872209326 ISBN 13: 9780872209329
Seller: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Germany
Condition: New. pp. xxix + 164.
Language: English
Published by ABC-Clio, Incorporated, 2009
ISBN 10: 0313355487 ISBN 13: 9780313355486
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. pp. xxx + 176, Maps.
Language: English
Published by ABC-Clio, Incorporated, 2009
ISBN 10: 0313355487 ISBN 13: 9780313355486
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. xxx + 176 Illus., Maps.
Language: English
Published by ABC-Clio, Incorporated, 2009
ISBN 10: 0313355487 ISBN 13: 9780313355486
Seller: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Germany
Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. xxx + 176.