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Provincial Inca: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Assessment of the Impact of the Inca State

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The Inca empire of Tawantinsuyu spanned almost 2,000 miles of enormous environmental variety, from coastal deserts to high-altitude grasslands. In lower than a century, without wheeled vehicles or animals that may 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 all the way through 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 focal point evaluates the means by which we take into account the Inca empire and its relationships with its conquered peoples; their empirical focal point 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 variety of environmental conditions and lots of kinds of provinces, Provincial Inca tests archaeological data against ethnohistorical descriptions to remove darkness from the variability in Inca state policies with regard to the incorporation of different provinces. It must be read by any person interested in Andean archaeology, ethnohistory, culture, ethnicity, and the formation of the state.

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