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Inca Ancestry and Colonial Privilege

open access: yes, 2018
Descendants of Hanan and Hurin Cuzco remained privileged for the duration of Spanish rule. Throughout the Andes, descendants of Huayna Capac and Tupa Inca Yupanqui held hereditary control over important cacicazgos, and they dominated the Indian republic ...
David Garrett
exaly   +2 more sources

Inca Transformations of the Chachapoya Region

open access: yes, 2018
The goal of this chapter is to reconstruct the socioeconomic impact that Inca rule had on the Chachapoya and the geographic landscape they inhabited. By using different lines of evidence, including archaeology and ethnohistory, supplemented with botanic ...
Inge Schjellerup
exaly   +2 more sources

Agricultural biodiversity and peasant rights to subsistence in the central Andes during Inca rule

Journal of Historical Geography, 1993
Abstract Pronounced agricultural biodiversity present in the central Andes was shaped through economic and social features of peasant agriculture during Inca rule in the 1400s and the early 1500s. The organization of economic activities into dual production and the claims of peasant households to subsistence rights were particularly formative.
Karl S Zimmerer
exaly   +2 more sources

Inca Political Organization, Economic Institutions, and Infrastructure

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter describes Inca political and economic organization and the infrastructure established to support imperial administration. Inca conceptualizations of politics and economics differed from those of the West, and the organization of power in the
Terence N D'Altroy
exaly   +2 more sources

Conclusions

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter is an editorial conclusion to Part 3, responding to the central issues raised in chapters on the military, political, and economic power of the Inca state.
Alan Covey, Sonia Alconini
exaly   +3 more sources

Mining, Commensal Politics, and Ritual under Inca Rule in Atacama, Northern Chile

2012
In this paper we reconsider our previous interpretation on Inca control over the San Jose del Abra copper mines in northern Chile by evaluating new evidence that comes from recent research into the sociopolitical and ideological dimensions of mining during the Late Period.
Diego Salazar   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Garments, Tocapu, Status, and Identity

open access: yes, 2018
The Inca developed and perfected a special type and quality of weaving that was the hallmark of their garment-making tradition. Textiles made of high-quality tapestry (cumbi) embodied the Inca aesthetic as a political and cultural force.
Elena Phipps
exaly   +2 more sources

Huarochiri: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule

The American Historical Review, 1985
Nicholas P. Cushner, Karen Spalding
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