The Incas

by Franklin Pease

Overview

Essential to understand Inca culture in all its aspects: origin, economy, social organization, religion and art. This is an introduction to life in the Tawantinsuyo, which is opposite to the versions provided by Spanish historians, whom imposed their occidental interpretation to a very Franklin Pease, well-known Peruvian historian, dedicated his entire life to study Inca civilization. In The Incas, Peruvian historian Franklin Pease explores all aspects of life in the Tawantinsuyu, the great Inca empire that stretched for thousands of miles along the Andes of modernday Bolivia, Chile, Ecuadro and Peru. Pease does so by reexamining the sources of most of our knowledge of this complex society, the "chronocles" written during and after the Spanish conquest by a disparate group of soldiers, priests, colonial administrators ands the descendants of this protagonists, often themselves of mixed Andean-Spanish blood. This account opens a window into the Inca universe, vividly explaining everything from the Inca polity and economic structures to its agriculture, transportation infrastructure, creation myths and religious beliefs. It also takes great care to avoid the common historioraphical error of projecting onto the Incas, arguably the last great civilization to have existed without contac with the "Old World" western ways of seeing and imagining the universe. The Incas is one of our best sellers and has already been translated to different reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786123171100
Publisher:	Fondo Editorial de la PUCP
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Franklin Pease García-Yrigoyen (1939-1999). Ph.D. in History from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, were he tauht from 1965. He was director of the National Library of Peru, director of the National Museum of History, and founder and director of the journal Historica.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter I The Andes, its History and the Incas Inca History The Predecessors of the Incas in the Andes Chapter II The Origin of the Incas The Early Organization of Cusco and the Formation of the Tawantinsuyu The Inca Conquests Chapter III The Inca Economy Labor Agriculture Agricultural Technology Livestock Metallurgy The Administration of Production Storehouses The Quipus Chapter IV The Organization of Society The Dualism The Inca The Cusco Elite The Curaca: Ethnic Lord Inca and Local Administration The Population and Population Policy Chapter V Description of Cusco Chapter VI The Inca Religion Andean Cosmovision Calendar The Huacas and the Sacred The Inca Sun Religion Chapter VII Art and Culture Chapter VIII The Incas after the Spanish Invasion Glossary of Quechua terms Basic Bibliography