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Subject(s)

• Incas [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Summary note

Essential to understand Inca culture in all its aspects: origin, economy, social organization, religion and art. This is an introduction to life in the Tawantinsuyo, which is opposite to the versions provided by Spanish historians, whom imposed their occidental interpretation to a very Franklin Pease, well-known Peruvian historian, dedicated his entire life to study Inca civilization.In The Incas, Peruvian historian Franklin Pease explores all aspects of life in the Tawantinsuyu, the great Inca empire that stretched for thousands of miles along the Andes of modernday Bolivia, Chile, Ecuadro and Peru. Pease does so by reexamining the sources of most of our knowledge of this complex society, the "chronocles" written during and after the Spanish conquest by a disparate group of soldiers, priests, colonial administrators ands the descendants of this protagonists, often themselves of mixed Andean-Spanish blood. This account opens a window into the Inca universe, vividly explaining everything from the Inca polity and economic structures to its agriculture, transportation infrastructure, creation myths and religious beliefs. It also takes great care to avoid the common historioraphical error of projecting onto the Incas, arguably the last great civilization to have existed without contac with the "Old World" western ways of seeing and imagining the universe.The Incas is one of our best sellers and has already been translated to different reality.

Notes

Contiene indice.

Bibliographic references

Contiene bibliografia.

Language note

Spanish

Contents

• The incas ; Página Legal; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I; Inca History; The Predecessors of the Incas in the Andes; Chapter II; The Early Organization of Cucso and the Formation of the Tawantinsuyu; The Inca Conquests; Chapter III; Labor; Agriculture; Agricultural Technology; Livestock; Metallurgy; The Administration of Production; Storehouses; The Quipus; Chapter IV; The Dualism; The Inca; The Cusco Elite; The Curaca: Ethnic Lord; Inca and Local Administration; The Population and Population Policy; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Andean Cosmovision; Calendar; The Huacas and the Sacred
• The Inca Sun ReligionChapter VII; Chapter VIII; Glossary of Quechua terms; Basic Bibliography

ISBN

• 9786123171100
• 6123171100
• 9781413537048
• 1413537049

OCLC

• 923016417
• 861523698

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