essay
Inca policies and institutions relating to the cultural unification of the empire
inca and aztec states, 1400-1800 : anthropology and history • New York • Published In 1982 • Pages: 93-118
By: Rowe, John Howland.
Abstract
John Rowe shows how Inka policies devised to prevent revolt unified the state more comprehensively than the architects of those policies realized. YANACONA, CAMAYO, and MITIMA statuses, which were all initially created to expropriate labor for the state, eventually undercut traditional provincial loyalty. YANACONAS raised in the personal retinues of the Inka ruler or Inka governors often gained further honors through administrative positions reserved for the state's most loyal subjects. CAMAYOS could perform skilled labor for the state as they did before the Inka conquest, but now their hereditary status led them to identify closely with the state, whatever their place of residence. MITIMA relocation exculsively undercut provincial loyalties. In these, and other ways, the Inka transformed organized government of the provinces and spread their ideology of supremacy (p. 93).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Central Andes
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1532-1600
- Coverage Place
- Peru
- Notes
- John Howland Rowe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-118)
- LCCN
- 82006760
- LCSH
- Incas