By Frank Salomon
By the point of Columbus, the folks of Ecuador's tropical highlands had created small yet remarkably advanced and interlinked political societies. those small societies for a few years proved capable of struggle off the overpowering could of the Inca nation. yet round 1500 they fell to Inca invaders who, in flip, quickly misplaced their dominion to Spanish warlords. Frank Salomon attracts on huge shops of assets to reconstruct the political and monetary associations of pre-Inca societies. Their constitution earlier than and through the Inca interlude unearths range within the Andean international. Salomon offers notable perception into the functioning of those 'chiefdoms', emphasizing their value for the certainty of rank, inequality, privilege and significant energy in stateless societies. He additionally contributes to our figuring out of growth, colonization, and the adaptive relationships among indigenous and imposed regimes in a context of precapitalist statecraft.
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Corazi R. Alausi or Chanchan 'El Tamb< R. C R Vertical scale - 10 X exaggerated Figure 7. North-south profiles of the Ecuadorian highlands (Source: Basile 1974:8 Peru Native lords of Quito in the age of the Incas highest pass at 3,470 meters, and the other via Calacali, which scarcely reaches 3,000 meters. These routes all but eliminate the crossing of the paramos. Additional favorable routes exist through Lloa, at about 3,000 meters and, to the north of Quito, through Chaupicruz and Nono. As will be seen, the ethnohistoric evidence supports the suspicion that these would be axes of transit between western tropical forest and interAndean peoples (Acosta-Solis 1962:30-32).
In the selection of chronicles and other printed primary sources, the main criterion has invariably been the degree of familiarity with the Quito region which the author demonstrably possessed. For this reason little use has been made of some first-rate chronicles, while others, not highly regarded by authors whose attention centers on Cuzco, here take on the highest importance. This is the case with Lope de Atienza, whose Compendio historial del estado de los indios del Peru contains little or nothing that is original regarding Inca civilization, and whose moralizing style is disagreeable to modern readers.
For this reason little use has been made of some first-rate chronicles, while others, not highly regarded by authors whose attention centers on Cuzco, here take on the highest importance. This is the case with Lope de Atienza, whose Compendio historial del estado de los indios del Peru contains little or nothing that is original regarding Inca civilization, and whose moralizing style is disagreeable to modern readers. But these defects do not diminish the value of his descriptions of the daily lives and beliefs of the Quito-area natives with whom a long career as a middle-level church functionary brought him in close contact.