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Culture summary: Inka
HRAF • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2005 • Pages:
By: Bray, Tamara L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the ethnohistoric and historic Inka.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inka
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1600 A.D.
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tamara Bray
- The major portion of this summary is based on the article, 'Inca,' by Tamara Bray in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 7: South America. Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2002. John Beierle added additional sections to this summary relevant to linguistic affiliations, history and cultural relations, land tenure, kinship, socialization, marriage, and medicine, in October 2003
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Incas