The Oxford Handbook of the Incas

The Antiquaries Journal The book includes input from many of the leading researchers in the field of Andean studies, a multidisciplinary group including archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, architects and biochemists, among others. They provide the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the Inca polity, its empire, administration and management of the many ethnic groups under its control, from Argentina, Bolivia and Chile in the south across Peru, to Ecuador in the north.

Latin American Antiquity Alconini and Covey's book, the outcome of an intellectual aynithe Quechua word for a collective effortcaptures in detail the current state of knowledge about Tawantinsuyu, and it arrives at a time of renewed academic and public dialogue on the past and present of Andean countries.

Noa Corcoran-Tadd, Desert Archaeology Alconini and Covey have put together an important and enduring volume that certainly will form an important baseline for future synthetic approaches to the Inca and their legacies.

CHOICE This impressive handbook on the Incas has 47 articles by 48 international scholars... The Inca Empire ranks among the great civilizations of the world, as this comprehensive volume admirably demonstrates.

SirReadaLot.org The Oxford Handbook of the Incas makes an important contribution to Inca and Andean studies that utilizes a multidisciplinary, multiscale approach. The book is thoroughly researched and richly illustrated with more than forty articles and two hundred illustrations. Chapters break new ground using innovative multidisciplinary research from the areas of archaeology, ethnohistory and art history.

Sonia Alconini: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio. Alan Covey: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.

The Oxford Handbook of the Inca (Sonia Alconini and Alan Covey, editors) Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction PART 1. THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INCA EMPIRE * 1.1 Writing Inca History: The Colonial Era (Joanne Pillsbury) * 1.2 Andean Statecraft before the Incas (Jerry D. Moore) * 1.3 The Spread of Inca Power in the Cuzco Region (R. Alan Covey) * 1.4 Cuzco: Development of the Imperial Capital (Ian Farrington) * 1.5 Conclusions: Retracing the Intellectual Journey of Inca Origins (R. Alan Covey and Sonia Alconini) PART 2. ROYAL ESTATES AND INCA IMPERIAL CENTERS * 2.1 Royal Estates and Imperial Centers in the Cuzco Region (Kylie E. Quave) * 2.2 Inca Imperial Strategies and Installations in Central Bolivia (Janos Gyarmati and Carola Condarco) * 2.3. The Inca Center of Incallacta in the Southeastern Andes (Lawrence Coben) * 2.4. The Inca Centers of Tomebamba and Caranqui in Northern Chinchaysuyu (Tamara L. Bray and Jose Echeverria) * 2.5. Pachacamac and the Incas on the Coast of Peru (Peter Eeckhout and Enrique Lopez-Hurtado) * 2.6. Conclusions: The Political Economy of Royal Estates and Imperial Centers in the Heartland and More Distant Provinces (Sonia Alconini and R. Alan Covey) PART 3. INCA HARD POWER: MILITARISM, ECONOMY, AND POLITICAL HIERARCHIES * 3.1 Inca Political Organization, Economic Institutions, and Infrastructure (Terence N. D'Altroy) * 3.2 Cultivating Empire: Inca Intensive Agricultural Strategies (Steve Kosiba) * 3.3 Fishing Economies and Ethnic Specialization under Inca Rule (Amanda S. Aland) * 3.4. The Acllacona and Mitmacona: Diet, Ethnicity, and Status (Bethany L. Turner and Barbara R. Hewitt) * 3.5 Gender and Status in Inca Textile and Ceramic Craft Production (Cathy Lynne Costin) * 3.6 Making the Typical Exceptional: The Elevation of Inca Cuisine (Justin Jennings and Guy Duke) * 3.7 Conclusions: Reassessing Inca Hard Power (R. Alan Covey and Sonia Alconini) PART 4. INCA IMPERIAL IDENTITIES: COLONIZATION, RESISTANCE, AND HYBRIDITY * 4.1 Inca Colonial Encounters and Incorporation in Northern Argentina (Felix Acuto and Ivan Leibowicz) * 4.2 Inca Imperial Colonization in Northern Chile (Calogero M. Santoro and Mauricio Uribe) * 4.3 Inca Mining and Metal Production (Colleen Zori) * 4.4 Chinchaysuyu and the Northern Inca Territory (Dennis E. Ogburn) * 4.5 Inca Advances into the Southeastern Tropics: The Inca Frontier in Perspective (Sonia Alconini) * 4.6 Inca Transformations in the Chachapoya Region (Inge Schjellerup) * 4.7 Inca Landscapes of Domination: Rock Art and Community in North-Central Chile (Andres Troncoso) * 4.8 Conclusions: Inca Imperial Identities-Colonization, Resistance, and Hybridity (Sonia Alconini and R. Alan Covey) PART 5. SACRED LANDSCAPES * 5.1. The Ritual Landscape of the Inca: The Huacas and Ceques of Cuzco (Brian S. Bauer) * 5.2. Rock Shrines, Ceque Lines, and Pilgrimage in the Inca Provinces (Jessica Joyce Christie) * 5.3. The Inca State and Local Ritual Landscapes (Zachary J. Chase) * 5.4. Inca Sacred Landscapes in the Titicaca Basin (Jason Yaeger and Jose Maria Lopez Bejarano) * 5.5. Peregrination and Rituality in the Southern Provinces (Pablo Mignone) * 5.6 Conclusions: Sacred Geographies and Imperial Expansion (Sonia Alconini and R. Alan Covey) PART 6. ART, ICONOGRAPHY, AND RECORD-KEEPING * 6. 1 Inca Aesthetics and Scholarly Inquiry (Adam Herring) * 6.2 Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers: Reckoning and Recording in Tahuantinsuyu (Gary Urton) * 6.3 The Development and Variation of Inca Architecture (Jean-Pierre Protzen) * 6.4 Garments, Tocapu, Status, and Identity: Inca and Colonial Perspectives (Elena Phipps) * 6.5 The Iconography and Use of Inca and Colonial Drinking Vessels (Mariusz Ziolkowski) * 6.6 Conclusion: Civilizing the Incas (R. Alan Covey and Sonia Alconini) PART 7. THE COLONIAL ERA: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND ADAPTATION * 7.1 Transformations: Evangelization, Resettlement, and Community Organization in the Early Viceroyalty of Peru