A North Andean Status Trader Complex under Inka Rule
1987; Duke University Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/482266
ISSN1527-5477
Autores Tópico(s)History and Politics in Latin America
ResumoIn the northernmost peripheries of the Inka Empire (northern Ecuador and Narifo Province, Colombia), an aboriginal status-trading complex resembling Mexican pochteca survived through and after Inka rule. Politically sponsored traders called mindalaes supplied aboriginal lords with sumptuary goods, and sometimes redistributed wealth so as to build political influence. Inkas' partial tolerance of this complex may reflect need for access to resources from zones radically resistant to
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