On the Royal Highways of the Inca
Author : Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN :
Author : Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Indians of South America
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Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Inca roads
ISBN :
Author : Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering
Publisher : London : Thames & Hudson
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Incas
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Author : Ramiro Matos Mendieta
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1588344959
This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced engineering and construction skills of the Inca people. The Qhapaq nan also spurred an important process of ecological and community integration across the Andean region. This book, the companion volume to a National Museum of the American Indian exhibition of the same name, features essays on six main themes: the ancestors of the Inca, Cusco as the center of the empire, road engineering, road transportation and integration, the road in the Colonial era, and the road today. Beautifully designed and featuring more than 225 full-color illustrations, The Great Inka Road is a fascinating look at this enduring symbol of the Andean peoples' strength and adaptability.
Author : Garcilaso de la Vega
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 1493 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0292784589
The two-part classic history of the Incan empire’s origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards. Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name EI Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. For the material in Part One of Royal Commentaries—the history of the Inca civilization prior to the arrival of the Spaniards—Garcilaso drew upon “what I often heard as a child from the lips of my mother and her brothers and uncles and other elders . . . [of] the origin of the Inca kings, their greatness, the grandeur of their empire, their deeds and conquests, their government in peace and war, and the laws they ordained so greatly to the advantage of their vassals.” The conventionalized and formal history of an oral tradition, Royal Commentaries describes the gradual imposition of order and civilization upon a primitive and barbaric world. To this Garcilaso adds facts about the geography and the flora and fauna of the land; the folk practices, religion, and superstitions; the agricultural and the architectural and engineering achievements of the people; and a variety of other information drawn from his rich store of traditional knowledge, personal observation, or speculative philosophy. Important though it is as history, Garcilaso’s classic is much more: it is also a work of art. Its gracious and graceful style, skillfully translated by Harold V. Livermore, succeeds in bringing to life for the reader a genuine work of literature.
Author : Alan L. Kolata
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521869005
This book provides a detailed account of the Inca Empire, describing its history, society, economy, religion, and politics, but most importantly the way it was managed. How did the Inca wield political power? What economic strategies did the Inca pursue in order to create the largest native empire in the Western Hemisphere? The book offers university students, scholars, and the general public a sophisticated new interpretation of Inca power politics and especially the role of religion in shaping an imperial world of great ethnic, social, and cultural diversity.
Author : Terence N. D'Altroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444331159
The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs
Author : Garcilaso De La Vega
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1603848568
This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.
Author : Gordon F Mcewan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393333015
The Incas: New Perspectives offers a revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from the earliest stages of its development to its final capitulation to Pizzarro in the mid-16th century. In recent years researchers have employed new tools to get to the heart of the mysterious Inca culture. Drawing on recent work in archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, and other sources, The Incas provides the most up-to-date interpretations of Inca culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life available. Readers will discover how the Incas discovered medicines still in use and kept records using knotted cords; how Inca builders created masterful highways and stone bridges; and how the inhabitants of seemingly unfarmable lands came to give the world potatoes, beans, corn, squashes, tomatoes, avocados, peanuts, and peppers. --Publisher.
Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292704961
A FASCINATING OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE LEADING EXPERT AND HIS COLLEAGUES CURRENTLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE GIANT GROUND DRAWINGS OF ANCIENT NASCA, PERU.