Anthropological history of Andean polities

This collection of essays by scholars from the Andes, Europe and the United States was originally published in the French journal Annales as a special double issue entitled The Historical Anthropology of Andean Societies. It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to prese...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Murra, John V. (-), Wachtel, Nathan, Revel, Jacques, 1942-2014
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme 1986.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / John V. Murra and Nathan Wachtel
  • The tropical Andes : a changing mosaic / Oliver Dollfus
  • The evolution of a valley : population and resources of Tarapacá over a millennium / Lautaro Núñez
  • 'Horizons' in Andean archaeology / Ana María Lorandi
  • The expansion of the Inka state : armies, war and rebellions / John V. Murra
  • Storage, supply and redistribution in the economy of the Inka state / Craig Morris
  • The extraction of precious metals at the time of the Inka / Jean Berthelot
  • Vertical politics on the Inka frontier / Frank Salomon
  • Some aspects of the Inka kinship system / Floyd G. Lounsbury
  • The classification and naming of South American camelids / Jorge A. Flores Ochoa
  • The semiology of Andean textiles : the talegas of Isluga / Verónica Cereceda
  • Inka dynasty and irrigation : another look at Andean concepts of history / R.T. Zuidema
  • Urco and uma : Aymara concepts of space / Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne / Mirrors and maize : the concept of yanantin among the Macha of Bolivia / Tristan Platt
  • From asymmetry to triangle : symbolic transformations in northern Potosí / Olivia Harris
  • Men of the water : the Uru problem (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) / Nathan Wachtel
  • The ethnic groups in the valleys of Larecaja : from descent to residence / Thierry Saignes
  • The Andean community today / Antoinette Molinié-Fioravanti.