Isabel Yaya, Ph.D. in History, is a Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her work focuses on the transmission and stabilisation of historical narratives in the Andes under Inca and Spanish rule. In parallel, she investigates Early Modern constructions of ancient Peru materialised in artefact collections and fictional literature. She has published in Ethnohistory, French History and the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONDual organization in the Andes: a theoretical frameworkPrécis of the chaptersA note on nomenclature and spellingPART I. THE POLITICS OF INCA HISTORYMAKING HISTORY: KNOTTING AND UNRAVELLING DISCURSIVE THREADSInconsistencies in contentHistoriographical responses to the chronicles’ discrepanciesPolyphony of the Inca dynastic accountsFILIATION IS HISTORY: THE INCA DIALECTICAL VIEW OF THE PASTThe Inca conical clanThe accommodation of historical contingencyINCA AND LOCAL ELITES: RITUAL POLITICS OF ASSIMILATIONThe foreign ayllus of the Inca heartlandRitual geography of the Cuzco regionThe politics of the initiation ritualPART II. “SOMETIMES THEY HOLD THE SUN AS THE CREATOR AND OTHER TIMES THEY SAY IT IS VIRACOCHA”THE ANCESTRAL RULERS OF THE DRY SEASONThe journey from Lake TiticacaWiraqucha and the might of the Thunder godEPICS OF THE OLD SUNThe Ayar siblings’ journey from Paqariq Tamputhe Sun god of the chroniclesHierarchy and the coalescence of solar cultsTHE INCA CALENDAR AND ITS TRANSITION PERIODSComputations and the Inca calendarDisruption of the cosmological and social order: the transition periodsThe rule of WiraquchaThe advent of P’unchawCONCLUSIONGLOSSARYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

Isabel Yaya, Ph.D. in History, is a Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her work focuses on the transmission and stabilisation of historical narratives in the Andes under Inca and Spanish rule. In parallel, she investigates Early Modern constructions of ancient Peru materialised in artefact collections and fictional literature. She has published in Ethnohistory, French History and the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONDual organization in the Andes: a theoretical frameworkPrécis of the chaptersA note on nomenclature and spellingPART I. THE POLITICS OF INCA HISTORYMAKING HISTORY: KNOTTING AND UNRAVELLING DISCURSIVE THREADSInconsistencies in contentHistoriographical responses to the chronicles’ discrepanciesPolyphony of the Inca dynastic accountsFILIATION IS HISTORY: THE INCA DIALECTICAL VIEW OF THE PASTThe Inca conical clanThe accommodation of historical contingencyINCA AND LOCAL ELITES: RITUAL POLITICS OF ASSIMILATIONThe foreign ayllus of the Inca heartlandRitual geography of the Cuzco regionThe politics of the initiation ritualPART II. “SOMETIMES THEY HOLD THE SUN AS THE CREATOR AND OTHER TIMES THEY SAY IT IS VIRACOCHA”THE ANCESTRAL RULERS OF THE DRY SEASONThe journey from Lake TiticacaWiraqucha and the might of the Thunder godEPICS OF THE OLD SUNThe Ayar siblings’ journey from Paqariq Tamputhe Sun god of the chroniclesHierarchy and the coalescence of solar cultsTHE INCA CALENDAR AND ITS TRANSITION PERIODSComputations and the Inca calendarDisruption of the cosmological and social order: the transition periodsThe rule of WiraquchaThe advent of P’unchawCONCLUSIONGLOSSARYBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX