LEADER 04902nam 2200661 450 001 9910453449803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-61059-8 010 $a1-118-61060-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001273061 035 $a(EBL)1662757 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1662757 035 $a(DLC) 2013050698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1662757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856783 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL595188 035 $a(OCoLC)875820489 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001273061 100 $a20140413h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Incas /$fTerence N. D'Altroy ; Nicki Averill, cover design 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aChichester, England :$cWiley Blackwell,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (567 p.) 225 1 $aThe Peoples of America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4443-3115-9 311 $a1-306-63937-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aHuman 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 327 $aFurther Ventures into the Eastern Lowlands Rebellion in the Altiplano; 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) 327 $aInformation 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 327 $aSuccession 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 327 $aSolar and Lunar Calendrics 330 $a"The book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aPeoples of America. 606 $aIncas$xHistory 606 $aIncas$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIncas$xHistory. 615 0$aIncas$xSocial life and customs. 676 $a985/.019 686 $aSOC003000$2bisacsh 700 $aD'Altroy$b Terence N.$0865147 702 $aAverill$b Nicki 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453449803321 996 $aThe Incas$91931059 997 $aUNINA