Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Development of the Inca State

0/5 ( ratings)

The Inca empire was the largest state in the Americas at the time of the Spanish invasion in 1532. From its political center in the Cuzco Valley, it controlled much of the area included in the modern nations of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. But how the Inca state became a major pan-Andean power is less certain. In this innovative work, Brian S. Bauer challenges traditional views of Inca state development and offers a new interpretation supported by archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence. Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries attributed the rapid rise of Inca power to a decisive military victory over the Chanca, their traditional rivals, by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui. By contrast, Bauer questions the usefulness of literal interpretations of the Spanish chronicles and provides instead a regional perspective on the question of state development. He suggests that incipient state growth in the Cuzco region was marked by the gradual consolidation and centralization of political authority in Cuzco, rather than resulting from a single military victory. Synthesizing regional surveys with excavation, historic, and ethnographic data, and investigating broad categories of social and economic organization, he shifts the focus away from legendary accounts and analyzes more general processes of political, economic, and social change.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 1992

ISBN 13: 9780292708488

The Development of the Inca State

0/5 ( ratings)

The Inca empire was the largest state in the Americas at the time of the Spanish invasion in 1532. From its political center in the Cuzco Valley, it controlled much of the area included in the modern nations of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. But how the Inca state became a major pan-Andean power is less certain. In this innovative work, Brian S. Bauer challenges traditional views of Inca state development and offers a new interpretation supported by archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence. Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries attributed the rapid rise of Inca power to a decisive military victory over the Chanca, their traditional rivals, by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui. By contrast, Bauer questions the usefulness of literal interpretations of the Spanish chronicles and provides instead a regional perspective on the question of state development. He suggests that incipient state growth in the Cuzco region was marked by the gradual consolidation and centralization of political authority in Cuzco, rather than resulting from a single military victory. Synthesizing regional surveys with excavation, historic, and ethnographic data, and investigating broad categories of social and economic organization, he shifts the focus away from legendary accounts and analyzes more general processes of political, economic, and social change.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 1992

ISBN 13: 9780292708488

More books from Gary Urton

Inca Myths: The Legendary Past

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic

4.1/5 ( ratings)

At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America

4.2/5 ( ratings)

جهان اسطوره‌ها ۲

The History of a Myth: Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Inkas

Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Animal Myths and Metaphors in South America

Encyclopedia of the Incas

Khipus of Laguna de los Cóndores = Los khipus de la Laguna de los Cóndores (2007 Paperback)

Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu

Rate this book!

Write a review?