The Inca world : ancient people and places ; art, architecture, religion, everyday life, culture ; the native civilizations of the Andes and South America explored in 500 paintings, drawing and photographs / David M. Jones

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Author

Jones, David M (David Michael) 1950-

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian.

Contents

Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century archaeology and beyond

pt. I: The ancient Andean World -- Timeline of the Incas and their ancestors -- 1. Living in the landscape -- Landscapes of the Andean area -- Plants in the Andean area -- Animals in the Andean area -- The Inca Empire at Pizarro's arrival -- Civil war: fall of the Inca Empire -- Pizarro's conquest -- 2. From villages to cities -- The first arrivals -- Preceramic villages -- The initial period -- The Early Horizon -- The Early Intermediate Period -- The Middle Horizon -- The Late Intermediate Period -- The Late Horizon -- 3. Building an empire -- Cultural unity (collectivity) -- Trade and mutual obligation -- Living in a tripartite world -- The Andean worldview -- Social and political evolution -- Structure of Empire -- 4. The world of work -- Civil administration -- Kinship ties -- Taxation and labour -- Trade and economy -- Andean and Inca roads -- Farming, herding and hunting -- Craft and craft workers -- Military service and warfare -- Civil servants and justice -- Priests and shamans -- 5. Daily life -- Community, household and adulthood -- Food and drink -- Birth, childhood and education -- Marriage and inheritance -- Gender roles -- Clothing and hairstyles -- Crime and punishment -- Music, dance and recreation -- Death and burial -- 6. Religious beliefs -- Belief systems and literature -- Common themes and continuity -- Creation and cosmology -- Pilgrimage, oracles and shrines -- Sacrifice, slaughter and ritual

pt. II: Ancient Andean art -- 7. Architecture -- Stone quarrying and working -- Monumental architecture -- Ritual focus -- Labyrinthine secrets -- Architectural decoration -- Inca structures -- 8. Ancient Andean cities -- Urban civilization -- Ceremonial centres and enclosures -- ritual and funerary compounds -- Administrative architecture -- Elite and royal residences -- Domestic architecture -- Fortresses and warfare -- U-shaped ceremonial complexes -- Paracas and Nazca cities -- Royal Moche -- Imperial Tiwanaku -- Imperial Huari -- Chan Chan of the Chimú -- The Imperial Inca capital and its cities -- Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail -- 9. Stone and clay sculpture -- Carving in stone -- Stonework of the Chavín -- Monumental stonework at Tiwanaku -- Plaster and mud wall sculptures -- Ceramic sculpture -- 10. Ceramics -- The first containers -- The invention of ceramics -- The shapes of pots -- Ceramic decoration -- Cultural styles -- Interpreting the pots -- Scenes and portraits in pottery -- 11. Fibrework, costume and featherwork -- Twining, spinning and weaving -- Early cotton textiles -- Wool from the Highlands -- Grasses and fibres -- Clothing styles -- Ritual costume -- Feathers and featherwork -- Dressed figurines -- 12. Metal, wood, stone, shell and bone -- Mining and metal technology -- Precious metals and early metalwork -- Moche Lords and metalsmiths -- Chimú and Inca metalwork -- Carving and building in wood -- Stone, shell and bone -- Funerary art

2010

©2010

Type

Books

History

Physical description

256 pages : color ill; color maps ; 31 cm

Place

Peru

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Incas

Incas--History

Incas--Social life and customs

Inca art

Incas--Antiquities

Civilization

Record ID

siris_sil_1089276

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