The Shape of Inca History
Subtitle: Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780877456735
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; South American archaeology; Native American Archaeology; Native Americans - History; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Andes; Latin America - South America; History / South America; Anthropology - Physical; Archaeology; Historiography; Inca architecture; Incas; Kings and rulers; Peru; Yucay Region
Description: In The Shape of Inca History, Susan Niles considers the ways in which the Inca concept of history informed their narratives, rituals, and architecture.

Using sixteenth-century chronicles of Inca culture, legal documents from the first generation of conquest, and field investigation of architectural remains, she strategically explores the interplay of oral and written histories with the architectural record and provides a new and exciting understanding of the lives of the royal families on the eve of conquest.