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Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

Author : Garcilaso de la Vega
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292784589
Total Pages : 1493 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two written by Garcilaso de la Vega and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 1493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-part classic history of the Incan empire’s origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards. Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important place in Spanish letters, Garcilaso was fiercely proud of his Indian ancestry and wrote under the name EI Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler. For the material in Part One of Royal Commentaries—the history of the Inca civilization prior to the arrival of the Spaniards—Garcilaso drew upon “what I often heard as a child from the lips of my mother and her brothers and uncles and other elders . . . [of] the origin of the Inca kings, their greatness, the grandeur of their empire, their deeds and conquests, their government in peace and war, and the laws they ordained so greatly to the advantage of their vassals.” The conventionalized and formal history of an oral tradition, Royal Commentaries describes the gradual imposition of order and civilization upon a primitive and barbaric world. To this Garcilaso adds facts about the geography and the flora and fauna of the land; the folk practices, religion, and superstitions; the agricultural and the architectural and engineering achievements of the people; and a variety of other information drawn from his rich store of traditional knowledge, personal observation, or speculative philosophy. Important though it is as history, Garcilaso’s classic is much more: it is also a work of art. Its gracious and graceful style, skillfully translated by Harold V. Livermore, succeeds in bringing to life for the reader a genuine work of literature.

The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged

Author : Garcilaso De La Vega
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603848568
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged written by Garcilaso De La Vega and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.

The Great Inka Road

Author : Ramiro Matos Mendieta
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344959
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book The Great Inka Road written by Ramiro Matos Mendieta and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling collection of essays explores the Qhapaq nan (or Great Inca Road), an extensive network of trails reaching modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. These roads and the accompanying agricultural terraces and structures that have survived for more than six centuries are a testament to the advanced engineering and construction skills of the Inca people. The Qhapaq nan also spurred an important process of ecological and community integration across the Andean region. This book, the companion volume to a National Museum of the American Indian exhibition of the same name, features essays on six main themes: the ancestors of the Inca, Cusco as the center of the empire, road engineering, road transportation and integration, the road in the Colonial era, and the road today. Beautifully designed and featuring more than 225 full-color illustrations, The Great Inka Road is a fascinating look at this enduring symbol of the Andean peoples' strength and adaptability.

Ancient Inca

Author : Alan L. Kolata
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521869005
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Inca written by Alan L. Kolata and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of the Inca Empire, describing its history, society, economy, religion, and politics, but most importantly the way it was managed. How did the Inca wield political power? What economic strategies did the Inca pursue in order to create the largest native empire in the Western Hemisphere? The book offers university students, scholars, and the general public a sophisticated new interpretation of Inca power politics and especially the role of religion in shaping an imperial world of great ethnic, social, and cultural diversity.

On the Royal Highways of the Inca

Author : Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On the Royal Highways of the Inca written by Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Incas

Author : Terence N. D'Altroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444331159
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Incas written by Terence N. D'Altroy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs

The Incas

Author : Gordon F Mcewan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393333015
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Incas written by Gordon F Mcewan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Incas: New Perspectives offers a revealing portrait of the ancient Andean empire from the earliest stages of its development to its final capitulation to Pizzarro in the mid-16th century. In recent years researchers have employed new tools to get to the heart of the mysterious Inca culture. Drawing on recent work in archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, and other sources, The Incas provides the most up-to-date interpretations of Inca culture, religion, politics, economics, and daily life available. Readers will discover how the Incas discovered medicines still in use and kept records using knotted cords; how Inca builders created masterful highways and stone bridges; and how the inhabitants of seemingly unfarmable lands came to give the world potatoes, beans, corn, squashes, tomatoes, avocados, peanuts, and peppers. --Publisher.

Between the Lines

Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292704961
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Between the Lines written by Anthony F. Aveni and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FASCINATING OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE LEADING EXPERT AND HIS COLLEAGUES CURRENTLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE GIANT GROUND DRAWINGS OF ANCIENT NASCA, PERU.

Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World

Author : Charles D. Trombold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521383374
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World by : Charles D. Trombold

Download or read book Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World written by Charles D. Trombold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to this volume, originally published in 1991, describe past studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication.

History of the Inca Empire

Author : Father Bernabe Cobo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789807
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book History of the Inca Empire written by Father Bernabe Cobo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, and dress of the Indians as well as a superb treatise on the Incas—their legends, history, and social institutions.

Scale and the Incas

Author : Andrew James Hamilton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400890195
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Scale and the Incas written by Andrew James Hamilton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking work on how the topic of scale provides an entirely new understanding of Inca material culture Although questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual cultures of many societies from around the world, especially in the Andes. In Scale and the Incas, Andrew Hamilton presents a groundbreaking theoretical framework for analyzing scale, and then applies this approach to Inca art, architecture, and belief systems. The Incas were one of humanity's great civilizations, but their lack of a written language has prevented widespread appreciation of their sophisticated intellectual tradition. Expansive in scope, this book examines many famous works of Inca art including Machu Picchu and the Dumbarton Oaks tunic, more enigmatic artifacts like the Sayhuite Stone and Capacocha offerings, and a range of relatively unknown objects in diverse media including fiber, wood, feathers, stone, and metalwork. Ultimately, Hamilton demonstrates how the Incas used scale as an effective mode of expression in their vast multilingual and multiethnic empire. Lavishly illustrated with stunning color plates created by the author, the book's pages depict artifacts alongside scale markers and silhouettes of hands and bodies, allowing readers to gauge scale in multiple ways. The pioneering visual and theoretical arguments of Scale andthe Incas not only rewrite understandings of Inca art, but also provide a benchmark for future studies of scale in art from other cultures.

Wonders in the Sacred Valley of the Incas

Author : Garfield Tavernier
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1649571305
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Wonders in the Sacred Valley of the Incas written by Garfield Tavernier and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonders in the Sacred Valley of the Incas: Pisac to Machu Picchu By: Garfield Tavernier Wonders in the Sacred Valley of the Incas is a practical, interesting, and informative guide to the heartland of the Incas, including the legendary capital City of Cuzco and the main archeological and geographical sites in the Valley, from Pisac to Machu Picchu. The Vilcanota Valley is widely acclaimed for its natural beauty; dominated by the majestic mountain range; basking in blowing breezes of the finest airs and carved by the roaring waters of the river running into pools of sweet serenity. Accurate data points, keen analysis, and firsthand observations provide insight and perspective for the casual traveler or the curious reader. It also dispels the many myths about the marvelous and mystical sanctuary and retreat between the Picchus, now widely acclaimed as a Wonder of the World.

Ancient Titicaca

Author : Charles Stanish
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520928199
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Titicaca written by Charles Stanish and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition from hunting and gathering to early agriculture, to the formation of the Tiwanaku and Pucara civilizations, and to the double conquest of the region, first by the powerful neighboring Inca in the fifteenth century and a century later by the Spanish Crown. Based on more than fifteen years of field research in Peru and Bolivia, Charles Stanish's book brings together a wide range of ethnographic, historical, and archaeological data, including material that has not yet been published. This landmark work brings the author's intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology in this region to bear on major theoretical concerns in evolutionary anthropology. Stanish provides a broad comparative framework for evaluating how these complex societies developed. After giving an overview of the region's archaeology and cultural history, he discusses the history of archaeological research in the Titicaca Basin, as well as its geography, ecology, and ethnography. He then synthesizes the data from six archaeological periods in the Titicaca Basin within an evolutionary anthropological framework. Titicaca Basin prehistory has long been viewed through the lens of first Inca intellectuals and the Spanish state. This book demonstrates that the ancestors of the Aymara people of the Titicaca Basin rivaled the Incas in wealth, sophistication, and cultural genius. The provocative data and interpretations of this book will also make us think anew about the rise and fall of other civilizations throughout history.

The Solar System of the Ancients Discovered. (Appendix.).

Author : John WILSON (Writer on Astronomy.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Solar System of the Ancients Discovered. (Appendix.). written by John WILSON (Writer on Astronomy.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered

Author : John Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Solar System of the Ancients Discovered written by John Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The lost solar system of the ancients discovered. [With] Appendix

Author : John Wilson (writer on astronomy.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The lost solar system of the ancients discovered. [With] Appendix written by John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Art and Anthropology

Author : Arnd Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323625
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art and Anthropology written by Arnd Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Art and Anthropology takes a new and exciting approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditionally, the anthropology of art has tended to focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts but has not considered the impact such art could have on its own ways of making and presenting work. The potential for the contemporary art scene to suggest innovative representational practices has been similarly ignored. This book challenges the reluctance that exists within anthropology to pursue alternative strategies of research, creation and exhibition, and argues that contemporary artists and anthropologists have much to learn from each others' practices. The contributors to this pioneering book consider the work of artists such as Susan Hiller, Francesco Clemente and Rimer Cardillo, and in exploring topics such as the possibility of shared representational values, aesthetics and modernity, and tattooing, they suggest productive new directions for practices in both fields.