Handbook to Life in the Inca World

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Название: Handbook to Life in the Inca World

Автор(ы): Ananda Cohen Suarez, Jeremy James George

Издательство: Facts on File

Год: 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0816074495

Страниц: 343

Язык: English

Формат: True PDF

Размер: 47 MB

Although it only lasted a few centuries, the Inca Empire quickly became one of the world's most famous pre-Columbian centers of power. Handbook to Life in the Inca World is a comprehensive and accessible examination of the Inca Empire, which stretched across the Andes Mountains in Peru from the 13th century until the invasion of the Spanish in the 16th century. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, art history, ethnography, and 16th-century Spanish chronicles, this handbook offers a readable, informative, and easy-to-navigate format that explains how the Inca Empire became such an influential and powerful civilization. Organized thematically, this new book includes an extensive list of further readings with each chapter, a comprehensive bibliography, as well as original line drawings from the conquistadors. Handbook to Life in the Inca World is a necessary addition to any pre-Columbian collection, as well as a useful resource for anyone interested in the Inca world.

Coverage includes:

Archaeology in the Andes

Architecture and urbanism

Art

The calendar, astronomy, and mathematics

Daily life

Economy, industry, and trade

Evolution of the Andean civilizations.

Funerary beliefs and customs

Geography

Militaryand warfare

Religion, cosmology, and mythology

Society and government

The Spanish conquest and the post-conquest world.