Inka Provincialism and the Empire: Commensalism and Social Agency

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Alfareros deste Inga: Pottery Production, Distribution and Exchange in the Tawantinsuyu" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As a multiethnic empire, the Inkas maintained varying forms of relations with the provinces and outllying frontier regions. To maintain control, state power was often materialized in state architecture, prestige materials and standardized ceramic styles disseminating the imperial ideology. Despite this situation, recent research has revealed the rise of a variety of provincial styles as the product of wider processes of transculturation, hybridization and emulation. By comparing the variability, spatial distribution and temporal shifts in a set of imperial centers of the Collasuyu quarter, the goal of this presentation is to discuss the different ways in which indigenous populations were integrated into the state, and the role that imperial emissaries had in implementing a set of imperial institutions and practices. Among others, those centers include Oroncota (Yampara province), Kaata Pata (Kallawaya province) and Samaipata. By using ethnohistoric and archaeologic information, the results will reveal the complexity of these relations, the different orientation and nature of commensalism celebrated in these state installations, and the varying ways in which competing royal families and Inkas-by- privilege implemented and interpreted the imperial agenda.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Alfareros deste Inga: Pottery Production, Distribution and Exchange in the Tawantinsuyu

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Abstract Id(s): 23953