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Author_Sonia Alconini
Bolivia
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Chiriguano
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New World
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Paraguay
Peru
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South America
Southeast Inka Frontiers
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Zapotecs
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062914
- Weight: 468g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Imperial frontiers are a fascinating stage for studying the interactions of people, institutions, and their environments. In one of the first books to explore the Inka frontier through archaeology, Sonia Alconini examines part of present-day Bolivia that was once a territory at the edge of the Inka empire. Along this frontier, one of the New World’s most powerful polities came into repeated conflict with tropical lowland groups that it could never subject to its rule.
Using extensive field research, Alconini explores the multifaceted socioeconomic processes that transpired in the frontier region. Her unprecedented study shows how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land and peoples in a territory located hundreds of miles away from the capital city of Cusco, and how people on the frontier navigated the cultural and environmental divide that separated the Andes and the Amazon.
Using extensive field research, Alconini explores the multifaceted socioeconomic processes that transpired in the frontier region. Her unprecedented study shows how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land and peoples in a territory located hundreds of miles away from the capital city of Cusco, and how people on the frontier navigated the cultural and environmental divide that separated the Andes and the Amazon.
Sonia Alconini is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, San Antonio, USA. She is the coeditor of Distant Provinces in the Inka Empire: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Inka Imperialism
