Contents

pp v-vi

List of contributors

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Ecology and society

pp 9-10

1 - The tropical Andes: a changing mosaic

pp 11-22

2 - The evolution of a valley: population and resources of Tarapacá over a millennium

pp 23-34

3 - “Horizons” in Andean archaeology

pp 35-46

Part II - The ethnic group and the state

pp 47-48

4 - The expansion of the Inka state: armies, war, and rebellions

pp 49-58

5 - Storage, supply, and redistribution in the economy of the Inka state

pp 59-68

6 - The extraction of precious metals at the time of the Inka

pp 69-88

7 - Vertical politics on the Inka frontier

pp 89-118

Part III - Systems of classification

pp 119-120

8 - Some aspects of the Inka kinship system

pp 121-136

9 - The classification and naming of South American camelids

pp 137-148

10 - The semiology of Andean textiles: the talegas of Isluga

pp 149-174

Part IV - Symbolic representations and practices

pp 175-176

11 - Inka dynasty and irrigation: another look at Andean concepts of history

pp 177-200

12 - Urco and uma: Aymara concepts of space

pp 201-227

13 - Mirrors and maize: the concept of yanantin among the Macha of Bolivia

pp 228-259

14 - From asymmetry to triangle: symbolic transformations in northern Potosí

pp 260-280

Part V - From ethnic polities to communities

pp 281-282

15 - Men of the water: the Uru problem (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)

pp 283-310

16 - The ethnic groups in the valleys of Larecaja: from descent to residence

pp 311-341

17 - The Andean community today

pp 342-358

Bibliography of published source

pp 359-376

Index

pp 377-383