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2007, The Collected Papers of the International Symposium on Historical Research of Plank Roads and Applications of 3S Technology, pp. 103-131. Hanzhong, China
From contemporary accounts, scholars have known their itinerary along the "Inka road of the mountain range", from Cuzco to Puno and the Collao región, and have assumed the rest (Figures 1-4). We wanted to archaeologically corroborate the chroniclers' accounts and to fill in their omissions. Over the past 2 years we have archaeologically surveyed the Inka road near Aullagas Lake and Tupiza (Bolivia), in the Argentine northwest, and in the Copiapó Valley (Chile). We traced Almagro's itinerary along the line of Inka tampus (shelters) south from Cuzco, locating some of the areas where the expedition stopped for extended periods and some Inka sites, such as Aullagas and Tupiza, where he stopped to get supplies.
Distant Provinces in the Inka Empire: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Inka Imperialism, editado por Michael A. Malpass y Sonia Alconini, pp. 44-74. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 2010
The southward spread of the Inka empire (known as Tawantinsuyu) in the 15 th century had its political basis in the rapid military integration of peripheral territories and ethnic groups. In only two generations, the Inka conquered the area around Cuzco in Peru (their original home), and incorporated large areas on both sides of the Andes in adjacent Peru, Bolivia (the altiplano; and Madre de Dios in the Amazon lowlands), northwestern Argentina and Chile, reaching their limit well south of Santiago (Figure 1). They established an organization in which they moved people, military forces and goods over large distances, and installed a 'Cuzco' model of governance, trade, traffic and tributes in the provinces (Bauer and Covey, 2002). This Pan Andean state was based on the redistribution of goods and services, and the involvement or co-option of local authorities (kurakas) or kinship groups (ayllus). The Inka maintained social cohesion by emphasizing several practices: the recipr...
During the 15th century, a great part of the Peruvian territory, then known as Tawantinsuyu, was governed by the Incas. The expansion of this empire was made possible, among other factors, by the construction of a complex road network that allowed the army and colonizers to move across the region. The participation of local populations, through various forms of collective labor, was imperative for the construction and maintenance of this road system. The arrival of the Spanish conquers in the 16th century brought about major changes in administrative and economic systems of the empire, affecting directly the use and management of this network. Although some sections of the road and associated infrastructure continued to be used until the post-colonial era, most were abandoned becoming part of our archaeological heritage. In this article we will discuss the factors that led to the continued use of a particular section of the Inca road, the one located between Portachuelo and Piticocha in the Yauyos province of Lima in Perú.
Rethinking the Inka: Community, Landscape and Empire in the Southern Andes , 2022
The archaeology of Latin America contains many unique features, both in focus and approach. This pioneering and comprehensive survey is the first overview of current themes in Latin American archaeology written solely by scholars native to the region, making their collective expertise available to an English-speaking audience. The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin. Further subjects covered include hunter-gatherer studies, the political implications of the history of archaeology in Brazil, and the French theoretical influence on the region. The book also presents an account of Latin American social archaeology, probably the region's best-known theoretical product. written solely by academics native to the region, and it makes their collected expertise available to an English-speaking audience for the firsttime. The contributors cover the most significant issues in the archaeology of Latin America, such as the domestication of camelids, the emergence of urban society in Mesoamerica, the frontier of the Inca empire, and the relatively little known archaeology of the Amazon basin.
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019
This dissertation investigates local community experiences of Inka imperialism between the 15th and 16th centuries t in the central highlands of Peru. It builds on studies of Inka imperialism in the province, with a focus on social practices and rituals of a community among the Yauyos people of Huarochirí Province (modern Lima Department). My theoretical framework builds on the concept of legibility from James Scott’s book, “Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed” (1998). In this view, states need to eliminate diversity and variability among their subjects in order to establish successful standardized polices. As one aspect of Scott’s model, legibility is the process through which states build an overarching and simplifying view of their subjects. The politics between empire and local subjects thus rest on the quality and depth of knowledge that states have of local practices, which in turn determine the degree of investment and cost-efficiency of the state in a specific area, and the negotiation of power dynamics between both parties. In Huarochirí, I examine a continuous process of mediation of the Inka state’s prerogative to bureaucratize and reduce local variation in social practices and institutions with the deeply embedded practices of local peoples. My central argument is that the use of familiar cultural practices by the Inka to mediate, if not control, their expanding empire also created the social spaces for local polities to maintain, formalize, and, at times, expand their own cultural practices and traditions. Through a detailed analysis of Huarochirí’s unique colonial documentary corpus, combined with archaeological reconnaissance and excavation, my dissertation provides a history of the Inka and their subjects from a local perspective rather than through the lenses of official state history as filtered through the perspectives of Spanish colonial actors.
Comparativ 30(3/4), 2020
The Inka Empire, or Tawantinsuyu, was the largest ancient empire in the Americas. During the fifteenth century and the first decades of the sixteenth century, the Inkas managed to conquer vast regions of the South American Andes, subduing a variety of groups and polities. But the Inkas did not expand their realm for the sole purpose of extracting resources and accumulating wealth. To various degrees, they developed a colonial project that aimed at reshaping the political, economic, cultural and religious institutions and practices of the colonized. There is no doubt that Inka colonialism involved, among other things, corvée labour, the strategic relocation of people(s) and the exploitation and production of staple crops and luxury goods. Nevertheless, we argue in this paper that, above all, the Inkas expanded into the Andean region to meet and relate to the Sacred. Inka expansionism was a sort of religious quest through which the Inkas built up their authority and legitimized their rule.
The latest results of American Studies; Tambo. Boletin de Arqueologia , 2019
The legendary origins of the Inca State date back to the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1438 AD), while its transformation into the Tawantinsuyu Empire and related with that long-range territorial expansion occurred during the Late Horizon, i.e. the time interval of approximately one century before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. Rapid expansion led to the formation of a centralized political-economic organism, occupying an area extending from the southern Colombia to central Chile, including all geographical and climatic zones of South America; desert coast, mountains and rainforest zone. Major repercussion of the constitution and expansion of the Tawantinsuyu Empire was gradually progressing cultural unification among conquered territory. It has been noticeable in the administration, architecture and spatial planning, as well as in a form and design of local handicrafts. The most awe-inspiring contribution of the Incas was creation of the extensive state, exceptional for its territorial coverage and system of organization, which had no equal in the whole continent. It's also worth mentioning that the key to political and economic success of Tawantinsuyu was the ability of Incas to use skills, organizational experiences and technical solutions of earlier generations, gradually improved over time. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cultural heritage of the Tawantinsuyu Empire became the crucial element of self-identification and, in a further step, has essentially influenced the development of the national consciousness of the current population of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and neighbouring regions.
IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium, 2005., 2005
Г. И. Беневич, А.С. Творогов. Тайна "Алфавитных глав" [Mystery of the Alphabetical Chapters] // Симеон Новый Богослов, преподобный [Dubia] Алфавитные главы (Ἀλφαβητικὰ κεφάλαια) / перевод с древнегреческого Егора Начинкина и Д. А. Черноглазова; научная редакция и комментарии Г. И. Беневича, преди..., 2003
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