Frontier, Inka craft production and the Kallawaya territory

Summary

In this paper I will evaluate the nature of Inka specialized craft production in the province of Kallawaya, and the ways in which the manufacture and distribution of imperial pottery was an avenue to enhance status. I have two goals in this presentation. First, using archaeological and ethohistoric data, I will assess the nature of production in the ceramic workshop of Milliraya and the role of specialized mitmaqkuna colonies in such processes. Second, I will illuminate the ways in which the highly valued Taraco Polychrome imperial style was distributed in the Inka imperial centers of the Kallawaya region. Such comparison will provide a window to understand the intersection between specialized craft production, imperialism and power, and the importance of such goods in the Inka imperial frontier economy.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• The Imperial Craft: Comparative Perspectives on Production and Society in Empires

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