Encyclopedia of the Incas

mainly for ayllu chiefs (curacas) and Inca royalty; common folk simply considered themselves members ...

potential for active life (though not all matter realized this potential). Bodies of the deceased, when prope ...

the city’s populace, who also sat in rank order. The Inca ruler, together with a high priest, drank ch ...

communication with the dead, the ayllu constituted itself as a moral and political entity at every level—fro ...

Z ZUIDEMA, R. TOM Zuidema (1927–) began his anthropological training with studies of Southeast Asian societies ...

status residents (ayllus) who collectively oversaw state ceremonies and religious celebrations within ...

About the Editors and Contributors THE EDITORS Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian St ...

Noble David Cook is Professor of History at Florida International University, Miami. Noa Corcoran-Tadd is a P ...

Jean-Pierre Protzen is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berke ...