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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domestic service
- Settlement patterns
- Occupational specialization
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Community heads
- Dependencies
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- External relations
- Revolution
- Prophets and ascetics
- Sacred objects and places
- Education system
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 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
- 1532-1600
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Howland Rowe
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-118)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82006760
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Incas