Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Investigating Empires -- Studying the Incas -- The Written Sources -- Eyewitnesses to the Spanish Invasion -- The Major Sixteenth-Century Spanish Authors -- Authors with Andean Ancestry -- The Later Spanish Chroniclers -- Spanish Inspections, Church Documents, and Court Records -- Inca Archaeology -- 1860-1960 -- 1960-2010 -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Land and Its People -- The Natural Setting -- The Andes -- Climate -- Environmental Zones -- Traditional Land Use Today -- Farming -- Herding -- Human Physiology in the Andean Environment -- Predecessors -- Languages -- Time Frames -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Incas before the Empire -- Setting the Stage -- Narrative Origins -- The Early Reigns -- The Origins of "Cuzco" -- The Archaeological Picture -- A Sketch of Pre-Imperial Inca Society -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions -- Expansionist Designs and the Crisis in Cuzco -- The Chanka Wars -- The Major Expansions: Pachakuti and Thupa Inka Yupanki -- Expeditions Southward -- The Peruvian Sierra and Coast -- Advances into Ecuador -- More Ventures onto the Peruvian Coast -- Further Ventures into the Eastern Lowlands -- Rebellion in the Altiplano -- Advances into Argentina and Chile -- Consolidation of the Empire: Wayna Qhapaq -- Dynastic War: Waskhar and Atawallpa -- Explaining the Inca Expansion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Thinking Inca -- Part I: Framing the Questions -- What Was the Inca Canon? -- The Nature and Basis of Knowledge -- Some Fundamentals -- Vitality -- Kinship and Sexuality -- Motion -- Space-Time -- Language and Knowledge -- Part II: Existence -- Vitality -- (Space-)Time -- Objects, Things, and Stuff -- Part III: Numerical Thinking (Not Just Accounting or Arithmetic).

Information Recording and Communication: A Problem and Its Knotty Solution -- How Did the Khipu Work? Figuring It Out -- Information Recorded on the Khipu -- Was the Khipu an Instrument of Writing? -- How Did the Khipu Work? Today's Theories -- Making Calculations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco -- Tawantinsuyu: The Four Parts Together -- Cuzco's Political Organization -- The Ruler: Sapa Inca ("Unique Inca") -- The High Priest (Willaq Umu) -- The Royal and Aristocratic Kindred -- Royal Alliances: Political Marriages and the Power of the Queen -- Succession Crises and the Shaping of Political History -- Note -- Chapter 7 The Heartland of the Empire -- The Setting and Urban Plan -- The Central Plazas -- The Major Architecture -- Temples -- Saqsawaman -- Other Features -- Greater Cuzco -- Royal and Aristocratic Estates -- Royal Coca Estates -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present -- Origins of the Cosmos and Humanity -- The Inca Pantheon -- Wiraqocha, the Creator -- Inti, the Sun -- Mama-Quilla, "Mother Moon" -- Inti-Illapa, the Thunder God -- Other Important Deities -- Calendrics and Astronomical Observations -- Solar and Lunar Calendrics -- Eclipses and Comets -- The Ceremonial Cycle -- Cuzco's Network of Shrines: the Zeq'e System -- Human Sacrifice:The Qhapaq Ucha and Itu Rituals -- Shrines in the Provinces -- Mountaintop Shrines -- A Native View from the Provinces -- Concluding Comments -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Family, Community, and Class -- The Elites -- Peasant Communities -- The Stages of Life -- Birth and Childhood -- Growing Up -- Marriage and Adult Life -- Death and the Afterlife -- Gender and Kin Relations -- Making a Living in the Highlands -- Farming -- Managing Water: The Tragedy of the Commons? -- Herding -- Exchange of Labor and Goods.

Domestic Activities -- Household Crafts -- On the Coast -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Militarism -- Military Strategy -- Fortifications and Garrisons -- Military Organization -- Scale of the Armies -- Recruitment of Personnel -- General Mobilization -- The Inca's Personal Guard -- Military Specialists -- Exemptions from Service -- Ritual and Ideology -- The Army on Campaign -- On the Road -- Logistics -- Battle Tactics and Weaponry -- Triumphs and Rewards -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Provincial Rule -- The Administrative System -- Organization of the Provinces -- The Decimal Administration -- The Census -- Inspectors and Judges -- Establishing and Maintaining Social Order -- The Infrastructure: Provincial Installations -- Organization at the Grand Scale -- Imposed Urbanism -- The Road System -- Resettlement -- The Varieties of Provincial Rule -- Hu�anuco, Peru -- Coastal Peru -- The Lake Titicaca Basin -- The South Andes -- Highland Ecuador -- Frontier Relations -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Farmers, Herders, and Storehouses -- Labor Service -- Farms of the State and the Sun -- Ceremonial and Agricultural Cycles -- Landed Estates and Grants -- The Flocks of the Inca -- State Storage -- Trickle-down Effects on Households -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Things and Their Masters -- Production for the Incas -- Textiles -- Uses of Cloth -- Clothing -- Weavers -- Specialized Communities -- Stone -- Metallurgy -- Metal Objects -- Mines and Mining -- Local Metallurgy under the Incas -- Ceramics -- Other Things -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Invasion and Aftermath -- One Account of the Events -- Another Account -- A Deity in Captivity -- On to Cuzco -- Cuzco under Co-rule -- An Empire Condensed -- The Imposition of Spanish Rule -- The Inca Reborn -- The Inca Legacy -- Notes -- References -- Glossary of Foreign Terms -- Index.

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