Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Inka frequently manipulated terrain and moved populations to meet imperial demands and legitimize their power. As a result, the Inka impacted native landscapes, often by forming colonies across their empire. This involved various social, political, and economic negotiations that led to the manifestation of imperial installations (such as state roads, administrative centers, and terracing systems) and spaces of local resistance. This symposium explores how local communities and landscapes responded to Inka imperialism. The session compares imperial and local strategies across different communities and provinces throughout the empire.

Other Keywords
Andes: Late Horizon • Survey • Colonialism • Frontiers and Borderlands • Landscape Archaeology • Andes: Late Intermediate • Social and Political Organization • Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology • Ideology, Ontology, and Memory • Imperialism, Frontier

Geographic Keywords
Republic of Peru (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of Colombia (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Republic of Ecuador (Country) • Republic of Chile (Country) • South America (Continent) • South America: Andes

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  • Merqueitalaque: Un ejemplo de resistencia e interdependencia local a la llegada Inka (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kodiak Aracena.

    This is an abstract from the "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La anexión de otros grupos culturales fue una estrategia sociopolítica recurrente de la política incaica durante el siglo XV. Dichas estrategias tendían a variar según la ubicación, las características de los grupos humanos, y el tipo de la relación de éstos con el Incario. Mediante la investigación para...

  • Movement, the Sacred, and Appropriations: Inka-Carangas Interactions in Sajama, Bolivia (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Birge.

    This is an abstract from the "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When the Inka arrived to the Sajama region, they encountered the Carangas, a pastoralist group, living in pukaras along a corridor between the coast and the highlands. Based on limited ethnohistoric sources, the Carangas allied with the Inka against the neighboring Pacajes and, in exchange, allowed the...

  • The Negotiated Yunga-Inka Landscape of the Camata-Carijana Valley (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Kim.

    This is an abstract from the "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Camata-Carijana Valley is situated on the eastern frontier of the Inka Empire in the Kallawaya domain and was inhabited by Chuncho groups from the tropical piedmont. To assess the relationships between these groups, the distribution of three key landscape features (community settlements, road...

  • Provisioning an Embattled Frontier: The Role of the Inka Settlement of Pulquina Arriba within an Imperial Defensive Network in the Southeastern Bolivian Andes (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Warren.

    This is an abstract from the "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In certain loosely incorporated territories of the Inka Empire, privileged non-Inka colonial populations were granted considerable autonomy and entrusted with the maintenance of local imperial settlements and infrastructure. Such was the case across much of the southeastern Bolivian Andes, in which...

  • Walled Rock Wak’as on Inka Royal Estates in the Heartland (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Christie.

    This is an abstract from the "Navigating Imperialism: Negotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper analyzes early state formation and integration of local groups at two royal estates, Tipon and Pisaq. Tipon, southeast of Cusco, began as a Killke period settlement before 1400. It functioned as outpost in the buffer zone between the Muyna and Pinagua in the Lucre Basin and the growing Cusco...