@book{18267, author = {Shimada, Izumi}, title = {The Inka empire:}, publisher = {University of Texas Press,}, year = {2015}, address = {Austin:}, note = {Introduction / Izumi Shimada -- Inkas through texts : the primary sources / Frank Salomon -- The languages of the Inkas / Rodolfo Cerro´n-Palomino -- Tracing the origin of Inka people through ancient DNA analysis / Ken-ichi Shinoda -- Separating the wheat from the chaff: Inka myths, Inka legends and the archaeological evidence for state development / Brian S. Bauer and Douglas K. Smit -- Inka imperial intentions and archaeological realities in the Peruvian highlands / R. Alan Covey -- Funding the Inka empire / Terence N. D'Altroy -- Inka cosmology in Moray: astronomy; agriculture, and pilgrimage / John C. Earls and Gabriela Cervantes -- The state of strings : khipu administration in the Inka empire / Gary Urton -- Inka art / Thomas B.F. Cummins -- Inka textile traditions and their colonial counterparts / Elena Phipps -- The Inka built environment / Stella Nair and Jean-Pierre Protzen -- Considering Inka royal estates : architecture, economy, history / Susan A. Niles -- Inka conceptions of life, death, and ancestor worship / Peter Kaulicke -- Collasuyu of the Inka state / Martti Párssinen -- Reading the material record of Inka rule: style, polity, and empire on the north coast of Peru / Frances M. Hayashida and Natalia Guzmán -- Over the mountains, down into the Ceja de Selva: Inka strategies and impacts in the Chachapoyas region / Inge chjellerup -- At the end of empire: imperial advances on the northern frontier / Tamara L. Bray -- Three faces of the Inka: changing conceptions and representations of the Inka during the colonial period / Tetsuya Amino.} }