Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms Contributor(s): Salomon, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521040493 ISBN-13: 9780521040495 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: 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. |
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BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 986.613 |
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.97 lbs) 300 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
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Publisher Description: 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. |