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Vertical politics on the Inka frontier

Salomon, Frank·1986·Anthropological History of Andean Polities
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511753091.011
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What happened within aboriginal Andean societies after Tawantinsuyu overpowered them? Chronicles transmit to us the Inkas’ own answers, emphasizing the state's largesse and civilizing influence, the teaching of Inka cults, and the establishment of idealized political structures in the likeness of Cusco. But in these accounts two crucial questions go unanswered. First, what kind of societies did the Inka propose to transform? Their habit of dismissing subject societies as barbarian behetrías prior to conquest makes it difficult to tell whether they were fundamentally similar in political makeup to central Andean communities or qualitatively different. Second, by what concrete series of interventions, incentives, and manipulations did the Inkas set about recasting the aboriginal formations in the image of a uniformizing structure? The ideal form of the “Fourfold Domain,” seemingly rigid and abstract, must in some way have provided a realistic guide to the problem of dealing with thousands of more or less refractory local ethnic lords, yet we do not know in terms of historical process how it was done. These problems should be especially interesting at the extreme frontiers of the empire, where Tawantinsuyu subjected peoples who had adapted to ecological conditions different from those that shaped Cusco, and whose ancestors had been relatively little affected by earlier waves of Andean empire building. Araníbar (1969–70) has suggested that the northern Inkaic periphery may have conserved archaic cultural complexes lost in the central Andes and thus could afford a clue to cultural elements older than the Andean states. The problem should also be especially accessible at the peripheries, because when Tawantinsuyu was decapitated, it left its work there in various stages of incompletion.

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Authors
Salomon, F.
Corresponding author
Salomon, Frank
ORCID
Salomon, Frank
Venue
Anthropological History of Andean Polities
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
1986-09-26
Pages
89-118
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511753091.011
OpenAlex
W2500608293
Cited by
40
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book chapter
Language
en
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closed
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www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 8775 d)
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies in Latin America
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Keywords
Inca Empire, Cusco

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