ISBN:
0-521-30299-4
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978-0-521-30299-9
ISSN:
0068-6794
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 274 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 59
Keywords:
Südamerika Anden
;
Indianer, Südamerika
;
Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Indianer, Anden
;
Inga
;
Inka
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Politisches System
;
Handel, primitiver
;
Anthropologie, soziale
Abstract:
By the time of Columbus, the people of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small but remarkably complex and interlinked political societies. These small societies for many years proved able to fight off the overwhelming might of the Inca state. But around 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in turn, soon lost their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies. Their structure before and during the Inca interlude reveals diversity in the Andean world. Salomon provides remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies. He also contributes to our understanding of expansion, colonization, and the adaptive relationships between indigenous and imposed regimes in a context of precapitalist statecraft.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of tables, figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The problem of the 'paramo Andes'; 2. The llajtakuna; 3. Local and exotic components of llajta economy; 4. Interzonal articulation; 5. The dimensions and dynamics of chiefdom polities; 6. The Incaic impact; 7. Quito in comparative perspective; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-268
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"[D]octoral dissertation [...] now in a revised, updated text with translations of all non-English sources." (Acknowledgements)
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Theses, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1978 entitled "Ethnic lords of Quito in the age of the Incas"
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