Anthropological history of Andean polities / edited by John V. Murra, Nathan Wachtel, and Jacques Revel
Cambridge Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly smudged and edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #424253
ISBN: 0521246679
Physical description; x, 383 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes; Translation of: Anthropologie historique des socie?te?s andines. Contents; Introduction / John V. Murra and Nathan Wachtel -- The tropical Andes : a changing mosaic / Oliver Dollfus -- The evolution of a valley : population and resources of Tarapaca? over a millennium / Lautaro Nu?n?ez -- 'Horizons' in Andean archaeology / Ana Mari?a Lorandi -- The expansion of the Inka state : armies, war and rebellions / John V. Murra -- Storage, supply and redistribution in the economy of the Inka state / Craig Morris -- The extraction of precious metals at the time of the Inka / Jean Berthelot -- Vertical politics on the Inka frontier / Frank Salomon -- Some aspects of the Inka kinship system / Floyd G. Lounsbury -- The classification and naming of South American camelids / Jorge A. Flores Ochoa -- The semiology of Andean textiles : the talegas of Isluga / Vero?nica Cereceda -- Inka dynasty and irrigation : another look at Andean concepts of history / R.T. Zuidema -- Urco and uma : Aymara concepts of space / The?re?se Bouysse-Cassagne / Mirrors and maize : the concept of yanantin among the Macha of Bolivia / Tristan Platt -- From asymmetry to triangle : symbolic transformations in northern Potosi? / Olivia Harris -- Men of the water : the Uru problem (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) / Nathan Wachtel -- The ethnic groups in the valleys of Larecaja : from descent to residence / Thierry Saignes -- The Andean community today / Antoinette Molinie?-Fioravanti.
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