To my parents

pp.：  5 – 12

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

pp.：  9 – 10

ACKNOWLEDGeMENTS

pp.：  11 – 12

Note:

pp.：  12 – 12

INTRODUCTION

pp.：  13 – 34

Rethinking duality in the Andes: the Inca case

pp.：  13 – 34

Dual organization in the Andes: a theoretical framework

pp.：  19 – 29

Précis of the chapters

pp.：  30 – 31

A note on nomenclature and spelling

pp.：  32 – 34

Part ONE

pp.：  35 – 36

THE POLITICS OF INCA HISTORY

pp.：  35 – 36

Chapter One

pp.：  37 – 64

MAKING HISTORY: knotting and unravelling discursive threads

pp.：  37 – 64

Inconsistencies in content

pp.：  41 – 47

Historiographical responses to the chronicles’ discrepancies

pp.：  48 – 54

Polyphony of the Inca dynastic accounts

pp.：  55 – 64

Chapter two

pp.：  65 – 110

Filiation is history: The Inca dialectical view of the past

pp.：  65 – 110

The Inca conical clan

pp.：  67 – 94

Royal Inheritance Rule

pp.：  67 – 71

The Qhapaq Ayllu

pp.：  72 – 74

Descent Stratification

pp.：  75 – 77

Patterns of Affiliation

pp.：  78 – 82

Siblingship

pp.：  83 – 87

Marriage Preferences

pp.：  88 – 92

Positional Inheritance

pp.：  93 – 94

The accommodation of historical contingency

pp.：  95 – 110

Hanan versus Hurin, or the Legitimation of Inca Kingship

pp.：  100 – 108

The vision of the conquerors

pp.：  109 – 110

Chapter three

pp.：  111 – 146

INCA AND LOCAL ELITES: RITUAL POLITICS OF ASSIMILATION

pp.：  111 – 146

The foreign ayllus of the Inca heartland

pp.：  113 – 116

Ritual geography of the Cuzco region

pp.：  117 – 122

The politics of the initiation ritual

pp.：  123 – 146

Ordeals and pilgrimage

pp.：  123 – 131

Name transmission and the articulation of marriage networks

pp.：  132 – 135

The ritual abduction of an Inca heir

pp.：  136 – 138

The politics of abduction

pp.：  139 – 142

Marriage alliances and imperial expansion

pp.：  143 – 146

PART Two

pp.：  147 – 148

“SOMETIMES THEY HOLD THE SUN AS THE CREATOR AND OTHER TIMES THEY SAY IT IS VIRACOCHA”

pp.：  147 – 148

Chapter four

pp.：  149 – 180

The ancestral Rulers of the dry season

pp.：  149 – 180

The journey from Lake Titicaca

pp.：  151 – 168

The animating function of Wiraqucha

pp.：  155 – 157

Wiraqucha’s solar aspects

pp.：  158 – 162

Wiraqucha in Inca ceremonies

pp.：  163 – 168

Wiraqucha and the might of the Thunder god

pp.：  169 – 173

From the underground to the firmament: water regulation in the dry season

pp.：  174 – 180

Chapter Five

pp.：  181 – 206

Epics of the Old Sun

pp.：  181 – 206

The Ayar Siblings’ journey from Paqariq Tampu

pp.：  182 – 188

Appropriating people and resources

pp.：  184 – 188

the Sun god of the chronicles

pp.：  189 – 199

The Moon

pp.：  196 – 199

Hierarchy and the coalescence of solar cults

pp.：  200 – 206

Chapter Six

pp.：  207 – 266

THE INCA CALENDAR AND ITS TRANSITION PERIODS

pp.：  207 – 266

Computations and the Inca calendar

pp.：  209 – 218

Astronomy and the dual structure of the calendar

pp.：  216 – 218

Disruption of the cosmological and social order: the transition periods

pp.：  219 – 235

First transition period: the harvest season

pp.：  219 – 225

Second transition period: the height of the wet season

pp.：  226 – 235

The rule of Wiraqucha

pp.：  236 – 251

Pachayachachiq and the earth regeneration

pp.：  236 – 240

Tiqsi Wiraqucha and the Rites of Purification

pp.：  241 – 244

Pura Upyay

pp.：  245 – 247

Preparations for the rite of passage

pp.：  248 – 251

The advent of P’unchaw

pp.：  252 – 266

Rituals of fertility and impregnation

pp.：  256 – 259

The celebrations of the Daylight god

pp.：  260 – 261

The end of the maize maturation

pp.：  262 – 262

Politics of the calendar

pp.：  263 – 266

CONCLUSION

pp.：  267 – 308

A bidimensional perspective on Inca historical narratives

pp.：  267 – 276

GLOSSARY

pp.：  277 – 278

Bibliography

pp.：  279 – 300

Manuscript Source

pp.：  279 – 300

Primary Sources

pp.：  279 – 281

Secondary Sources

pp.：  282 – 300

INDEX

pp.：  301 – 308