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Style, Technology, and State Production: Inka Pottery Manufacture in the Leche Valley, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frances M. Hayashida
Frances M. Hayashida*
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Dept. of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 409 Carpenter Bldg., University Park, PA 16802
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Abstract

According to historical sources, the Inka relocated groups of craft specialists to provincial centers to manufacture goods for the state. Recent fieldwork in the Leche Valley on the north coast of Peru provides insights into the organization and technology of pottery production at these centers. While Inka style jars were added to their repertories, potters continued to manufacture vessels in local styles using local techniques. These results caution against a reliance on style in identifying products made in administered contexts, and question the equivalence of style with polity in the Inka provinces. They also highlight a need to critically evaluate Inka cultural policies and the significance of subject styles in the empire.

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Según fuentes históricas los Inka reubicaron grupos de especialistas en centros provinciales con el propósito de manufacturar bienes para el estado. Investigaciones arqueológicas recientes en el valle de La Leche, en la costa norte del Perú, ofrecen evidencia de la organización y tecnología de producción alfarera en estos centros. Aun cuando los alfareros agregaron a su repertorio vasijas en el estilo inka, continuaron produciendo cerámica en sus estilos y técnicas locales. Los resultados obtenidos en estas advierten acerca del riesgo que hay en utilizar el estilo como criterio para identificar artefactos producidos en contextos administrativos, e igualmente cuestionan la equivalencia de términos como estilo y entidad política en las provincias inkaicas. Además, los resultados resaltan la importancia de evaluar críticamente las estratégias culturales inkaicas y la importancia de estilos subordinados bajo el imperio.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 337 - 352
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1999

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