Encyclopedia of the Incas

equivocal and of two minds. We know little about how aclla experienced their changed status; but male v ...

How did the beneficiaries of these Inca gifts assess their new fortunes? Having multiple wives worked to t ...

wives, and the novel dictates of sexual purity and control. The aclla’s sacred standing in imperial organiza ...

proclivity of the Native peoples of Peru and Mexico to accept Christianity reflected the role of divine pr ...

A provincial administrator displaying quipus. These knotted accounting devices were crucial to administering the f ...

new lord once the Inca army had moved on to another part of the Andes. The suppression of rebellions typ ...

apu (great lord), conducted regular inspections with the assistance of quipu specialists who maintained re ...

the Bolivian altiplano. Parts of the Atacama Desert and the southern coast of Peru have very little evid ...

and disposition of goods stored in state warehouses located around the empire (see Storage). To understand how t ...

Inca decimal administration hierarchy. Julia L. Meyerson. The administrators who oversaw this decimal hierarchical ...

accounting centers apparently reported their information directly to the head knot keepers of their ...

Andalusia, Spain, around 1529. We do not know much about his early life, although it is clear that he ...

Duviols, Pierre, ed. “Un inédit de Cristóbal de Albornoz: La instrucción para descubrir todas las guacas del P ...

The Cordillera Blanca in Ancash dominates Peru’s central Andes. Adriana von Hagen. The midsection of this South ...

Southward the chains converge in a knot around Cerro de Pasco (10°45’S), out of which two main cor ...

Chile of any plant life. The physical geography on the east side of the eastern cordillera is completely ...

or improved agricultural productivity. Among them were raised fields (to prevent crops from rotting ...

ANELLO OLIVA, GIOVANNI This chronicler of Inca history, commonly referred to as Padre Oliva, was born ...

Anello Oliva’s work. His text was not published until 1895, by which time all but the first of the four ...

frequently depicted in Moche and Chimú pottery, and its plumes incorporated into Chimú and Inca featherwork ...