ANTHRO 114R Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Inca Empire, Featherwork, Santa River
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Children of inka woman and spanish man. Ad 1320: cusco is a small village. Whenever 1 ruler would die they would be mummified. There is an importance in the concept of lineage. It was very important to trace down who you came from. 12 mummies by the time the spanish came. There was no rule or specification on which son would be ruler: the father had to choose which son would succeed him. 1 man could have had many lineages b/c of many wives. Would conquer different villages and bring them into the cusco political and economic network. Based in andahualas (apurimac), west of cusco. In ad 1438 they were on the verge of attacking the inka. Viracocha retreated along urubamba with inka urqo; inka yupanqui stayed in cusco. Cusco held, severe defeat of the chankas. Inka yupanqui names himself king and takes the name pachacuti. Although he saved cusco his father didn"t want to make him king.
