THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
THE INCAS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Alconini Mujica, Sonia, editor. | Covey, Alan, editor.
Title: The Oxford handbook of the Incas / Sonia Alconini and Alan Covey, editors.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036813 | ISBN 9780190219352 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190219376 (online component) | ISBN 9780190908034 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: IncasHandbooks, manuals, etc. | IncasHistory. | IncasAntiquities.
Classification: LCC F3429 .O96 2018 | DDC 985/.019dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036813
This book is dedicated to five giants of Inca studies. Their work has inspired generations of scholars in the Andes and beyond.
Mara Rostworowski de Diez Canseco (August 8, 1915March 6, 2016)
R. Tom Zuidema (May 24, 1927March 2, 2016)
E. Craig Morris (October 7, 1939June 14, 2006)
John Victor Murra (August 24, 1916October 16, 2006)
John Howland Rowe (June 10, 1918May 1, 2004)
CONTENTS
JOANNE PILLSBURY
JERRY D. MOORE
R. ALAN COVEY
IAN FARRINGTON
R. ALAN COVEY AND SONIA ALCONINI
KYLIE E. QUAVE
JNOS GYARMATI AND CAROLA CONDARCO
LAWRENCE COBEN
TAMARA L. BRAY AND JOS ECHEVERRA
PETER EECKHOUT AND ENRIQUE LPEZ-HURTADO
SONIA ALCONINI AND R. ALAN COVEY
TERENCE N. DALTROY
STEVE KOSIBA
AMANDA S. ALAND
BETHANY L. TURNER AND BARBARA R. HEWITT
CATHY LYNNE COSTIN
JUSTIN JENNINGS AND GUY DUKE
R. ALAN COVEY AND SONIA ALCONINI
FLIX A. ACUTO AND IVN LEIBOWICZ
CALOGERO M. SANTORO AND MAURICIO URIBE
COLLEEN ZORI
DENNIS E. OGBURN
SONIA ALCONINI
INGE SCHJELLERUP
ANDRS TRONCOSO
SONIA ALCONINI AND R. ALAN COVEY
BRIAN S. BAUER
JESSICA JOYCE CHRISTIE
ZACHARY J. CHASE
JASON YAEGER AND JOS MARA LPEZ BEJARANO
PABLO MIGNONE
SONIA ALCONINI AND R. ALAN COVEY
ADAM HERRING
GARY URTON
JEAN-PIERRE PROTZEN
ELENA PHIPPS
MARIUSZ ZIKOWSKI
R. ALAN COVEY AND SONIA ALCONINI
STEVEN A. WERNKE
MELISSA S. MURPHY
VINCENT R. LEE
DAVID T. GARRETT
R. ALAN COVEY AND SONIA ALCONINI
STEFANIE GNGER
LUCY C. SALAZAR AND RICHARD L. BURGER
CATHERINE ELISABETH COVEY
SONIA ALCONINI AND R. ALAN COVEY
Flix A. Acuto Instituto Interdisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas CONICET, Argentina.
Amanda S. Aland Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
Sonia Alconini Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Brian S. Bauer Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jos Mara Lpez Bejarano Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Ursinus College.
Tamara L. Bray Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University.
Richard L. Burger Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
Zachary J. Chase Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University.
Jessica Joyce Christie School of Art and Design, East Carolina University.
Lawrence Coben The Sustainable Preservation Initiative.
Carola Condarco Universidad Tecnica de Oruro, Bolivia.
Cathy Lynne Costin Department of Anthropology, California State University.
Catherine Elisabeth Covey Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley.
R. Alan Covey Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin.
Terence DAltroy Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.
Guy Duke Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley.
Jos Echeverra Independent Scholar in Ecuador.
Peter Eeckhout Facult de Philosophie et Lettres, Section Histoire de lArt et Archologie, Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Ian Farrington School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University.
Stefanie Gnger Abt. fr Iberische und Lateinamerikanische Geschichte, Germany.
David T. Garrett Department of History, Reed College.
Jnos Gyarmati Nprajzi Mzeum, Hungary.
Adam Herring Department of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University.
Barbara R. Hewitt University of Manitoba, Office of Research Services, Canada.
Enrique Lpez-Hurtado Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Peru.
Justin Jennings Department of World Cultures, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.
Steve Kosiba Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
Vincent R. Lee Sixpac Manco Publications.
Ivn Leibowicz Instituto de Investigaciones Antropolgicas, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Mexico.
Pablo Mignone CONICET, Centro Promocional de Estudios en Historia y Antropologa, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina.
Jerry D. Moore Department of Anthropology, California State University-Dominguez Hills.
Melissa S. Murphy Anthropology Department, University of Wyoming.
Dennis E. Ogburn Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Elena Phipps Independent textile scholar and curator.
Joanne Pillsbury Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jean-Pierre Protzen Department of Architecture, University of California.
Kylie E. Quave Department of Anthropology, Beloit College.
Lucy C. Salazar Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
Calogero M. Santoro Instituto de Alta Investigacin, Universidad de Tarapac, Chile.
Inge Schjellerup Forsknings- and Formidlingsafdelingen, Etnografisk Samling, Nationalmuseet, Denmark.
Andrs Troncoso Departamento de Antropologa, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Bethany L. Turner Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University.
Mauricio Uribe Departamento de Antropologa, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Gary Urton Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Steven A. Wernke Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University.
Jason Yaeger Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio.