Alf Hornborg
Professor emeritus
Time-space Appropriation in the Inka Empire : A Study of Imperial Metabolism
Author
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.
Department/s
- Human Ecology
Publishing year
2016
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Studies in Human Ecology
Issue
15
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Keywords
- Inka Empire
- time-space appropriation
- ecologically unequal exchange
- historical political ecology
- human ecology
- imperial metabolism
- economic anthropology
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Alf Hornborg
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1403-5022
- ISBN: 978-91-7623-898-1
Defence date
16 September 2016
Defence time
10:00
Defence place
Flygeln, Geocentrum I, Sölvegatan 10, Lund
Opponent
- Cathy L. Costin (Professor)