Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the Incas: The Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms - Rilegato

Salomon, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0521302994 ISBN 13: 9780521302999

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Riassunto

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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Frank Salomon draws on large stores of sources to reconstruct the political and economic institutions of pre-Inca societies, providing remarkable insight into the functioning of these 'chiefdoms', and emphasizing their importance for the understanding of rank, inequality, privilege and central power in stateless societies.

Contenuti:

List of tables, figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The problem of the 'pįramo 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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0521302994
• ISBN 13: 9780521302999
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304