Incas

Terence N. D’Altroy is Loubat Professor of American Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and founding Director of the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University in the City of New York. During more than 40 years of archaeological research, he has worked in the central highlands, Cuzco region and coast of Peru, in Argentina, the United States, and Mexico. His publications include Provincial Power in the Inka Empire (1992), Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (co-editor, 2001), and The Incas: Inside an American Empire (2004).

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• Preface to the Second Edition ixPreface to the First Edition xv1 Introduction 12 The Land and Its People 333 The Incas before the Empire 684 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions 915 Thinking Inca 1196 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco 1747 The Heartland of the Empire 1988 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present 2479 Family, Community, and Class 29010 Militarism 32111 Provincial Rule 35112 Farmers, Herders, and Storehouses 39213 Things and Their Masters 41814 Invasion and Aftermath 449References 476Glossary of Foreign Terms 520Index 527