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Autore |
D'Altroy Terence N. |
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Titolo |
The Incas / / Terence N. D'Altroy ; Nicki Averill, cover design |
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-61059-8 |
1-118-61060-1 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (567 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Incas - History |
Incas - Social life and customs |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; Investigating Empires; Studying the Incas; The Written Sources; Eyewitnesses to the Spanish Invasion; The Major Sixteenth-Century Spanish Authors; Authors with Andean Ancestry; The Later Spanish Chroniclers; Spanish Inspections, Church Documents, and Court Records; Inca Archaeology; 1860-1960; 1960-2010; Notes; Chapter 2 The Land and Its People; The Natural Setting; The Andes; Climate; Environmental Zones; Traditional Land Use Today; Farming; Herding |
Human Physiology in the Andean Environment Predecessors; Languages; Time Frames; Notes; Chapter 3 The Incas before the Empire; Setting the Stage; Narrative Origins; The Early Reigns; The Origins of "Cuzco"; The Archaeological Picture; A Sketch of Pre-Imperial Inca Society; Notes; Chapter 4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions; Expansionist Designs and the Crisis in Cuzco; The Chanka Wars; The Major Expansions: Pachakuti and Thupa Inka Yupanki; Expeditions Southward; The Peruvian Sierra and Coast; Advances into Ecuador; More Ventures onto the Peruvian Coast |
Further Ventures into the Eastern Lowlands Rebellion in the Altiplano; |
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Advances into Argentina and Chile; Consolidation of the Empire: Wayna Qhapaq; Dynastic War: Waskhar and Atawallpa; Explaining the Inca Expansion; Notes; Chapter 5 Thinking Inca; Part I: Framing the Questions; What Was the Inca Canon?; The Nature and Basis of Knowledge; Some Fundamentals; Vitality; Kinship and Sexuality; Motion; Space-Time; Language and Knowledge; Part II: Existence; Vitality; (Space-)Time; Objects, Things, and Stuff; Part III: Numerical Thinking (Not Just Accounting or Arithmetic) |
Information Recording and Communication: A Problem and Its Knotty Solution How Did the Khipu Work? Figuring It Out; Information Recorded on the Khipu; Was the Khipu an Instrument of Writing?; How Did the Khipu Work? Today's Theories; Making Calculations; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco; Tawantinsuyu: The Four Parts Together; Cuzco's Political Organization; The Ruler: Sapa Inca ("Unique Inca"); The High Priest (Willaq Umu); The Royal and Aristocratic Kindred; Royal Alliances: Political Marriages and the Power of the Queen |
Succession Crises and the Shaping of Political History Note; Chapter 7 The Heartland of the Empire; The Setting and Urban Plan; The Central Plazas; The Major Architecture; Temples; Saqsawaman; Other Features; Greater Cuzco; Royal and Aristocratic Estates; Royal Coca Estates; Summary; Notes; Chapter 8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present; Origins of the Cosmos and Humanity; The Inca Pantheon; Wiraqocha, the Creator; Inti, the Sun; Mama-Quilla, "Mother Moon"; Inti-Illapa, the Thunder God; Other Important Deities; Calendrics and Astronomical Observations |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"The book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors"-- |
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