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Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations
John Murra
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Description for Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations
Paperback. Num Pages: 170 pages, 14 color plates, 3 maps. BIC Classification: UY; WZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization." Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called "pristine civilization" developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here which followed a fundamentally different process than that of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica he uses that study to shed new light on the general problems of achieving civilization in any world region. Murra intermixes ... Read more
John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization." Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called "pristine civilization" developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here which followed a fundamentally different process than that of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica he uses that study to shed new light on the general problems of achieving civilization in any world region. Murra intermixes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HAU United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
122
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780997367553
SKU
V9780997367553
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About John Murra
John V. Murra (1916 2006) was a leading anthropologist and scholar of the Inca Empire. He taught at a variety of institutions, including Yale University, Cornell University, Vassar College, the University of Puerto Rico, and Universidad de San Marcos. He is the author or coauthor of many influential books on Andean civilization, including The Economic Organization of the Inca State ... Read more
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