Encyclopedia of the Incas

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Encyclopedia of the Incas ...

Encyclopedia of the Incas EDITED BY GARY URTON AND ADRIANA VON HAGEN ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • ...

Published by Rowman & Littlefield A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Grou ...

Contents Introduction A B C D E F G H I K L M O P Q R S T U V W Z About the Editors and Contributors ...

T Introduction he Inca Empire was the largest state of the Pre-Columbian New World, greater by far in extent a ...

SOURCES: THE CHALLENGES OF STUDYING A NONLITERATE CIVILIZATION Unlike other pristine states of the ancien ...

depending on the interests and motives of the new, European overlords of the Andean world. For the many reaso ...

succession between two brothers, Huascar and Atahualpa. In under a year, Atahualpa had killed ...

populations and to maintain the peace. This is a very expensive and costly form of power, requiring extens ...

creator gods, as well as huacas, sacred places, that united related groups of people spread out ove ...

laborers, to five such groups totaling 50 laborers, to two groups of 50 composing groups of 100 (pachaca) ...

deities in state-sponsored festivals attended by local officials and the general populace were imp ...

Inca specialists who have both worked for years studying and writing on various aspects of this ancient Sout ...

Each of the scholars noted above was instrumental in advancing the field of studies known as ethnohistory ...

an English-speaking audience. We hope to provide a Spanish translation, for which other sources may ...

As mentioned earlier, we anticipate that this encyclopedia will be translated into Spanish in the future, ...

instance, huaca (sacred place/object) may be spelled in different sources as guaca or waka. In ...

The Inca Empire, Tahuantinsuyu, at its height, showing the extent of the empire and the road system that linked Cuz ...

A ACLLACUNA No group of women received more attention in the written accounts of the Inca Empire than the ...