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The aim of this study is to analyze, summarize and bring up to date interpretations and knowledge concerning the main aspects of Tawantinsuyu (the Inca State) especially relating to its political organization. The questions the investigators have to face are numerous and therefore somewhat different methods and approaches will be used relating to each problem. In fact, the methods and approaches mainly depend on the amount and quality of our primary sources since we do not have any other choice than to accept the limitations of our primary material. Nevertheless, we may say that in general, historical methods, as well as anthropological models and theories will be used. Furthermore, archaeological and linguistic information helps us considerably to understand some spatial and administrative principles and structures of Tawantinsuyu. In general we may say that one must act like a historian when dealing with chroniclers and other written documents. However, after the investigator has evaluated, for example, a chronicler's original sources, a chronicler's possibility to understand the phenomenom they were describing, the validity of their information and so on, he, the investigator, m

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Martti Pärssinen
Publisher
Societas Historica Finlandiae (SHS)
Published
1992
Language
EN
ISBN
9789518915624
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Political Science, Archaeology
Updated
2026-03-25

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