The Inca Empire and Its Strategic Expansion

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Sometime during the early fifteenth century, the people that came to be known as the Inca rose to power in the Cuzco basin of south-central Peru. Building on locally grounded understandings of authority, morality, and sustainability, the Inca were the last in a series of expansionistic Andean regimes that rose and fell in the millennium prior to European conquest. Modern classification of the Inca polity as an empire has encouraged a focus on questions that make sense within a cultural evolutionary paradigm while directing attention away from exploration of other modes of, or motivations for, organizing multiethnic polities. As recognition of Eurocentric biases grows and the ontological turn gains traction in archaeology, new questions are surfacing in Inca studies, directed toward consideration of alternative configurations of the natural and social worlds. This chapter sketches the archaeological contours of Tawantinsuyu, highlighting departures from normative expectations of imperial behaviors as well as new insights from archaeometric data and recent studies that center Indigenous ontologies and attendant understandings of agency, social being, power, and obligation.
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Authors Tamara L. Bray
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.58
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.58
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