Reading Inca History

This title won the Ermine Wheeler-Voegelin Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize.

A reading of Inca history. Drawing on the research of John Rowe, Roland Hamilton and Pierre Duviols, as well as her own extensive investigations, Catherine Julien presents a reasoned and detailed analysis of Inca sources in an attempt to establish which materials represent historical reality.A reading of Inca history. Drawing on the research of John Rowe, Roland Hamilton and Pierre Duviols, as well as her own extensive investigations, Catherine Julien presents a reasoned and detailed analysis of Inca sources in an attempt to establish which materials represent historical reality. She uncovers evidence that would indicate that the Inca elite had generated both ""genealogy"" (of the Manco Capac lineage) and ""life history"" (biographical profiles of the deeds of Inca dynasts).