Alf Hornborg
Professor emeritus
Time-space Appropriation in the Inka Empire : A Study of Imperial Metabolism
Författare
Summary, in English
The thesis thus addresses long-standing questions regarding the economic operation of the Inka Empire as well as central issues in general social theory. It demonstrates how imperial power is based on biophysical flows of embodied labor and land, organized by specific cultural permutations of reciprocity and redistribution. The thesis focuses on estimating these flows through analyses of time-space appropriation. This is done by reconstructing, on the basis of archaeological, historical and ethnographic data, the production processes of three emblematic Inka artifacts: textiles, chicha (maize beer), and stone walls.
Avdelning/ar
- Humanekologi
Publiceringsår
2016
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Studies in Human Ecology
Issue
15
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Nyckelord
- Inka Empire
- time-space appropriation
- ecologically unequal exchange
- historical political ecology
- human ecology
- imperial metabolism
- economic anthropology
Status
Published
Handledare
- Alf Hornborg
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1403-5022
- ISBN: 978-91-7623-898-1
Försvarsdatum
16 september 2016
Försvarstid
10:00
Försvarsplats
Flygeln, Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10, Lund
Opponent
- Cathy L. Costin (Professor)