Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Written Sources, Origins, and Formations
6. Chapter 2. Inkas through Texts: The Primary Sources 23
7. Chapter 3. The Languages of the Inkas 39
8. Chapter 4. Tracing the Origin of Inka People through Ancient DNA Analysis 55
9. Chapter 5. Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Inka Myths, Inka Legends, and the Archaeological Evidence for State Development 67
10. Part II. Imperial Infrastructures and Administrative Strategies
11. Chapter 6. Inka Imperial Intentions and Archaeological Realities in the Peruvian Highlands 83
12. Chapter 7. Funding the Inka Empire 97
13. Part III. Inka Culture at the Center
14. Chapter 8. Inka Cosmology in Moray: Astronomy, Agriculture, and Pilgrimage 121
15. Chapter 9. The State of Strings: Khipu Administration in the Inka Empire 149
16. Chapter 10. Inka Art 165
17. Chapter 11. Inka Textile Traditions and Their Colonial Counterparts 197
18. Chapter 12. The Inka Built Environment 215
19. Chapter 13. Considering Inka Royal Estates: Architecture, Economy, History 233
20. Chapter 14. Inka Conceptions of Life, Death, and Ancestor Worship 247
21. Part IV. Imperial Administration in the Provinces
22. Chapter 15. Collasuyu of the Inka State 265
23. Chapter 16. Reading the Material Record of Inka Rule: Style, Polity, and Empire on the North Coast of Peru 287
24. Chapter 17. Over the Mountains, Down into the Ceja de Selva: Inka Strategies and Impacts in the Chachapoyas Region 307
25. Chapter 18. At the End of Empire: Imperial Advances on the Northern Frontier 325
26. Part V. Impacts of the Spanish Conquest
27. Chapter 19. Three Faces of the Inka: Changing Conceptions and Representations of the Inka during the Colonial Period 347
28. Authors’ Biographies 363
29. Index 367