The Inka empire : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Izumi Shimada.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Introduction / Izumi Shimada -- Inkas through texts : the primary sources / Frank Salomon -- The languages of the Inkas / Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino -- Tracing the origin of Inka people through ancient DNA analysis / Ken-ichi Shinoda -- Separating the wheat from the chaff : Inka myths, Inka legends and the archaeological evidence for state development / Brian S. Bauer and Douglas K. Smit -- Inka imperial intentions and archaeological realities in the Peruvian highlands / R. Alan Covey -- Funding the Inka empire / Terence N. D'Altroy -- Inka cosmology in Moray : astronomy; agriculture, and pilgrimage / John C. Earls and Gabriela Cervantes -- The state of strings : khipu administration in the Inka empire / Gary Urton -- Inka art / Thomas B.F. Cummins -- Inka textile traditions and their colonial counterparts / Elena Phipps -- The Inka built environment / Stella Nair and Jean-Pierre Protzen -- Considering Inka royal estates : architecture, economy, history / Susan A. Niles -- Inka conceptions of life, death, and ancestor worship / Peter Kaulicke -- Collasuyu of the Inka state / Martti Pärssinen -- Reading the material record of Inka rule : style, polity, and empire on the north coast of Peru / Frances M. Hayashida and Natalia Guzmán -- Over the mountains, down into the Ceja de Selva : Inka strategies and impacts in the Chachapoyas region / Inge Schjellerup -- At the end of empire : imperial advances on the northern frontier / Tamara L. Bray -- Three faces of the Inka : changing conceptions and representations of the Inka during the colonial period / Tetsuya Amino.

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"The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century."--Publisher's description.

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